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1910. Battery - Storage - Foreign - Moyes, John W. (D-10-09)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
John W. Moyes of Toronto, Canada, and his negotiations with the Edison
Storage Battery Co. for the manufacture and sale of storage batteries in
Canada. Included are versions of an agreement between Moyes and Edison;
correspondence between Moyes and Frank L. Dyer, vice president of the
Edison Storage Battery Co.; and items pertaining to Moyes's interest in
obtaining the Canadian rights to Edison’s cement patents.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include other versions and copies of the agreement with
Moyes as well as other documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
Related material can be found in D-10-13 (Cement).
June 7, 1910.
John XI. Hoycs , Esq. ,
Elio Glen, Boer lark,
Toronto , Canada.
Boar Moyes :
. 1 hand you horowitli proposition in duplicate regard¬
ing the Edison St or ago Battory in Canada, and I have followed
exactly along the linos discussod hetwoen us onccpt that at the
end I havo addod a number of clauses 'to protect Mr. Edison in
case you or your associates should fail to ggfejg with reasonable
promptness the necessary stops to bring about tho formation
and starting in business of the Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Co. If after discussion with your associates this proposition
is acceptable to you, kindly sign ono of tho copies and return
the same to mo.
I hope you will find tho proposition in correct form,
because, having already discussed tho matter oarofully with Mr.
Edison, I should dislifco to suggest to him the making of any
change in it.
Believe me,
Yours very truly,
PIiB/IWV/ Vico-Presi dent.
Enc-
Orange, Hew Jersey, June 7, 1910,
John W. Moyes, Esq.,
The Glen, Deer Park, •
Toronto, Canada.
My dear Sir:
I am prepared to make the following proposition to
you and your associates for the perfected Edison Storage Battery
in the Dominion of Canada:
You are to organize a corporation or joint stock
company within thirty days from the date hereof under the laws of
the Province of Ontario or the Dominion of Canada capitalized at
§4,000,000.00, of which §2,000,000.00 shall be 7?° preferred stocks
The common stock shall be issued as bonuses in connection with
the sale of the preferred stock or for other Company purposes.
All of the preferred stock shall be sold fox' cash at par,
commissions for selling the same not to exceed 5^; end
§250,000,00 of said preferred stock shall be sold for cash to
you and your associates and the money paid into the treasury
of the corporation within sixty days from the date hereof.
The name of the corporation in question shall be .
"Canadian Storage Battery Vehicles, limited1,' or any other suit¬
able name, but the word "Edison" must not constitute a part
thereof.
As soon as the company is formed and prior to July
15, 1910, the company will immediately take steps to build or
procure a factory for the construction of commercial trucks and
other apparatus with which storage batteries may be used. I
will agree to furnish the Company with complete drawings and
John W. Moyes. (2)
other necessary information to permit the Company to manufacture
a line of Lansden vehicles similar to those manufactured in this
country.
Hot later than March 1, 1911, the Company must begin
to order batteries from the Edison Storage Battery Company,
Orange , H. J. , payments therefor to he made within thirty days
from the receipt of invoice, and the price to be charged being
20/° off from list f, 0. b. factory, Orange; duties to be paid by
the Canadian Company. These orders for Edison batteries for a
period of six months from March 1, 1911, must at least average
50 A-4 cells or the equivalent thereof per day for each month.
Bor the period from September 1, 1911, to March 1, 1912, the
Canadian company must order and pay for batteries from the Edison
Storage Battery Company, Orange, IT. J. , at the rate of 100 A-4
cells or the equivalent thereof per day for each month. After
March 1, 1912, the Canadian Company must order and pay fox- bat¬
teries at the rate of at least 150 A-4 cells or the equivalent
thereof per day for each month. I vri.ll agree that all reasonable
demands of the Canadian Company for Edison batteries will be
supplied with preaoonable promptness and that orders from the
Canadian company for batteries will in no way be discriminated
against, this understanding being not only personal to myself
but also including the Edison Storage Battery Company, which I
control. Should the Canadian Company fail to buy Edison storage
John w. iloyes.
(3)
batteries and pay for the same at the rates above provided for,
I reserve the right to fill any orders for storage batteries in
Canada directly from Orange or to develop the Canadian territory
in any other way; but if this is done the Edison Storage Battery
Company will continue to 3ell batteries to the Canadian Company
at Zofc discount from list provided the regular conditions of
payment are complied with and provided further that the demands
of the Canadian Company shall at least equal an average of
50 A- 4 cells per day per month.
If all the above conditions are faithfully observed by
the Canadian Company, I agree both for myself and the Edison
Storage Battery Company not to fill orders direct to Canada
but to refer all inquiries and hand over all orders to the Canadian
Company, and I will make reasonable efforts to prevent the filling
of Canadian orders through any other source than the Canadian
Company. fhe Canadian company must on its part agree as Boon
as possible after its incorporation to organize an effective
selling department and to use all reasonable efforts to introduce
the Edison battery in Canada and to fill any demands that may
exist for the same in that country.
As soon as the Canadian Company develops a business
in Edison batteries in Canada equivalent to a legitimate demand
for at least 150 A-4 cells per day or the equivalent thereof, so
as to warrant the construction of a factory in Canada for build¬
ing Edison batteries, I will agree to permit you and yoir asso¬
ciates to commence such manufacture under my Canadian patents
on the following terms and conditions:
John V/. Jioye 8.
A joint stock company shall he formed under the laws
01 tbe Province Ontario or the Dominion of Canada called the
"Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited", the capital
stock of which shall he $750,000. 00 7% preferred stock, all to
he sold at not less than 95X net for cash and of which at least
$250,000.00 shall he paid for in cash within thirty days from the
formation of said Company. I will grant the said Company the
sole exclusive and non-assignahle license under all of my
Canadian storage hactery patents and also under any Canadian
patents which may he granted to me or my associates within ten
years from the date hereof. In consideration of the granting of
such license, the Canadian Edison Storage. Battery Company,
Limited, will agree to pay to me, my heirs, legal representatives
and assigns a royalty of 60 cents U. S. Currency on each
standard Edison Storage Battery Cell of the A- 4 type containing 4
positives and 5 negative plates; For other Edison Storage Battery
Cells manufactured by said Company, the royalty payable to nn
shall hear the same proportion to the royalty of 60 cents per cell
as the capacity of such other cells shall hear to the capacity of
the standard A-4 cell. After all the Canadian patents have ex-
pired the royalty stall cease.
It must also he understood that I stall further
participate in the surplus earnings of the said Canadian Edison
Storage Battery Company, Limited, to the extent of $0'! of the net
profits after a 7% dividend stall have been paid on the preferred
stock actually issued and sold for cash, said 7 '/„ dividend to he
cumulative. Such distribution of any surplus earnings shall he
John V/. lioyes.
made within ninety days after the end of each and every fiscal
year of said Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited,
and for the purpose of such distribution there shall be an annual
accounting made by public or chartered accountants of the business
done by said company in each year. The above participation by
me in the surplus earnings of the Company shall remain in force
during the life of the Company or its successor or successors in
business.
The company must agree that all Edison Storage Batter¬
ies made by it shall not be sold for less than 20$ above the cost
of actual manufacture including general expense, and it must
also agree to so apportion its salaries and other items of general
expense that the entire general expense of the Company shall not
exceed 40$ of the cost of labor and materials going into the
menu fact ure of said batteries.
Royalties shall be paid for quarter ly, and all amounts
due me shall be payable at my discretion either in Toronto or
Rev; York.
The charter of said Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Company, Limited, shall expressly provide
(1) That the Company shall not increase its capital
nor consolidate with or purchase any other Company.
(2) That the Company shall not sell or transfer or
in any way impair the rights acquired under my said patents.
(5) That the company shall not use its earnings
for increasing the capacity of the plapt or put in reserve more
than 10$ of its net earnings annually; but the Company may in¬
crease its capital stock for extending its factory capacity or to
John V/. Moyea. (6)
provide for necessary working capital.
(4) That the Company shall not purchase or manufacture
any other article than the Edison Storage Battery.
(5) That the Company shall not go into the Business
of renting Batteries.
(<?) That the Company shall not enter into any oBliga-
tion Beyond its capacity to pay therefor from its cash capital.
(7) That the Company shall not sell Batteries to any
affiliated concern or otherwise for less than an amount suffi¬
cient to pay the royalties aBove provided and also a profit of
Z07° over the cost of manufacture including general expense.
If the laws of the Dominion of Canada prohibit the in¬
clusion of the above restrictions in the charter of the Company
to Be formed, then it must Be understood that these restrictions
shall Be first embodied in an agreement to Be made Between the
Canadian Edison Storage Battey Company, limited, and myself
Before any rights under said patents are required.
Tire Company must agree that I shall have the right to
nominate and have elected one representative on the Board of
Directors or Executive Committee of said Company so long as said
Company may exist.
The Company must agree not to sell Edison Storage Bat¬
teries for export to any country nor knowingly to sell Edison
Storage Batteries to persons, firms or corporations doing an
exporting Business, unless with my express permission or that of
uy legal representatives or assigns. On my own part I will agree
that in the sale of aiy rights under the Edison Storage Battery
patents in other countries I will insert corresponding provisions
in any license agreements prohibiting importations into Canada.
John \7. lloyes, (7)
The expense of any lawsuits or other legal proceed¬
ings brought by or against the Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Company Limited and involving the right of said Company to
exploit my Canadian patents shall be divided equally between said
Company and myself. Said Company shall consult and be guided by
me or my legal representatives or assigns in the event of any
patent suit being brought by or against said Company and in every
such case I shall be entitled to employ special counsel to follow
my own instructions and to control the suit in collaboration with
the counsel of said Company.
I will also agree to furnish at cost to said Company
drawings of any improved machinery for manufacturing batteries
which I may make during the life time of the Company, and after
the Company is formed I agree to furnish active materials
necessary for the battery at a profit of over and above
actual cost f. o. b. Orange, If. J.
It must also be understood, that until the Canadian
Edison Storage Bat t say Company, Limited, is on a substantial
basis as a going concern -- that is, until such time as it
pays expenses and fixed charges — I shall have entire technical
control thereof, shall decide what manufacturing operations are
i.° oe carried on, by whom and in what manner manufacturing .shall
be performed, whether any factory shall be constructed and if
so the location and mode of construction and capacity thereof,
and all drawings and plans shall be subject to my approval. A ,
report of the business done by the said Company shall be made to
John \'I. Hoyes. (8)
me each month during the entire life of the Company and the hooha
of the Company shall he open for inspection hy me or my legal
representatives or assigns at any time upon reasonable notice.
It will finally he understood find agreed with the
Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited, that the agree¬
ment above outlined to be made with said Company shall terminate
upon the failure of said Company to carry out any of the terms
and conditions thereof, but without prejudice to any claims which
I, sy heirs, legal representative or assigns may have against
said company.
The proposition above outlined contemplates the foraa^-
tion of two Companies, the first known as the "Canadian Storage
Battery Vehicles, Limited" or other proper name, being formed to
manufacture electric vehicles or other apparatus for use with
Edison Storage Batteries to be purchased from Orange ; and the
second known as the "Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company,
Limited", being later formed to manufacture Edison Storage
Batteries in Canada when a sufficient demand for the same exists.
In connection with the Canadian Edison Storage Battery Comp my,
Limited, a formal contract will be entered into between said
Company and nyself embodying the features and conditions above
expressed whe n the time comes for said Company to be formed.
It must be distintly understood and agreed that any
obligation on my part to carry out the above understanding with
the Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited, shall
terminate in the event of any of the following contingencies
taking place:
(1) If at any time after I have notified you that the
Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited, should ho formed and
should commence operations the said Canadian Storage Battei'y Vehicles,
Limited, should fail to purchase at least 150 A-4 cells or the
equivalent thereof per day for each month, the understanding Being
that the Canadian Storage Battery Vehicles, Limited, shall purchase
uninterruptedly from the Edison Storage Battery Company, Orange,
at least 150 cells per day until the tiiae when the Canadian Edison
Storage Battery Company, Limited, shall actually supply an equivalent
number of cells of its own manufacture.
(2) If within thirty days after I shall have notified
you to commence, the formation of said Canadian Edison Storage
Battery Company, Limited, you should neglect or fail to provide for
such formation.
(3) If after the formation of the Canadian Edison
Storage Battery Company, Limited, you should neglect or fail
within thirty days thereafter to effect the sale in cash of at
leat §250,000.00 of its capital stock.
(4) If after the formation of said Canadian Edison Storage
Battery Company, Limited, you should neglect or fail to properly
take steps to provide for a factory .therefor, which factory shall
he ready for operation and commence to turn out Edison storage
Batteries within nine months from the time of the incorporation of the
said Company.
said Company.
Kindly indicate hereon whether the proposition above
outlined is acceptable to you and your associates.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Thomas A. Edison
President.
On behalf of myself and my associates
I accept the above proposition and agree to be
bound by all the terms and conditions thereof.
EDISOi'l STORAGE BATTERY CO.
CONTRACT
Hr. John .7. I.loycs ,
To r ont o , Canada .
Dear Sir:
I am prepared to make the following proposition to
you and your associates for the perfected Edison Storage
Battery in the Dominion of Canada:
You are to organize a corporation or joint stock company
3 ■ - bl¬
under the laws of the Province of Ontario or the Dominion
of Canada capitalized at §2,000,000, all of which shall ho
7$ preferred' stock. All stock shall he sold for cash at par,
commissions for soiling the same not to exceed 5/S, and §250,000
of said stock to he sold for cash to you and your associates
and the money paid into the treasury of the corporation within
sixty days from the date hereof.
As soon as the company is formed, and prior to July
15, 1910, the company will immediately take steps to huild
or procure a factory for the construction of_ Commercial
Trucks -end- Pleasure VehiclesA I will agree to furnish the
Comp'Sny with 'drawings and other necessary information to
permit the Company to manufacture a line of Lansdon vehicles
similar to those manufactured in this country.
(2)
Hot later than Marbh 1, 1911, the Company must begin
to order batteries from the Edison Storage 3attory Company,
Orange, H. J . , payments therefor to be inado within thirty
days from receipt of invoice, and the price to be cliargod
being 20$ off from list; duties to be paid by the Canadian
Company. These ordors for Edison batteries shall, for a
period of sio: months from Iiarch 1, 1911, at least average
50 A-4 cells or the equivalent thereof per day^ For the
period from September 1, 1911, to March 1, 1912, the Canadian
Company will order and pay for batteries from the Edison
Storage Battery Co., Orange, II. J. , at the rate of ■3^0 A-4 //-"C?
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colls or the equivalent thereof per day. After March 1, 1912,
the Company will order and pay for hattcries at the rate of
’{) at least A-4 cells or the equivalent thereof por day^
I will agree that all reasonable demands of the
Canadian Company for Edison batteries will be supplied
with reasonable promptness and that all orders from the
Canadian Company for batteries will in no wyy be discrimi¬
nated against, this understanding being not only personal to
myself but also including the Edison atorage Battery Company,
(3)
which I control.
Should the Canadian Company fail to huy storage batter¬
ies and pay for the same at the rates above provided for, I
reserve the right to fill any orders for Storage Batteries in
Canada directly from Orange or to develop the Canadian
territory in any other way; but if this is done, the Edison
Storage Battery Company will still sell batteries to the
Canadian Company at 20# discount from list, provided the
regular conditions of payment are complied. with.
If all the above conditions are faitBfully obserared
by the Canadian Company, I agree, both for myself and the
Edison Storage Battery Company not to fill orders direct to
Canada but to refer^ all inquiries and orders to the Canadian
Company , and I will make reasonable efforts to prevent the
filling of Canadian orders through any other source than the
ip
Canadian Company. r The Canadian Company must on its part
agree as soon as possible after its incorporation to use
reasonable efforts to introduce the Edison battery in Canada
and to fill any demand for the same that may exist in that
country.
(4)
As soon as the Canadian Company develops a business in
Edison batteries equivalent to a legitimate demand for at least
150 A-4 cells per day, or the equivalent thereof, so as to
warrant the construction of a factory in Canada for building
Edison batteries, I will agree to permit you and your associates
to commence such manufacture under my Canadian patents on the
following terms:
A joint stock company shall bo formed under tlio laws
of the Province of Ontario or the Dominion of Can:, da called tlio
"Canadian Edison Storage Battery Company, Limited", the capital
stock of which shall be $750,000.00 7$ preferred stock, all .to be
sold at par for cash and of which at least $250,000.00 shall be
paid for in cash within thirty days from the formation of said
Company. I will grant to said Company the sole exclusive and
non-assignable license under all of my Canadian Storage Battery
patents and also under any Candion patents which may be granted
within ten yoars from the date hereof. In consideration of the
granting of such license, the said Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Company, Ltd., will agree to pay me, my heirs, legal representa¬
tives and assigns a royalty of 60 conts United States currency
on each standard Edison Storage Battery cell of the A-4 type, con¬
taining four positive and five negative plates. Eor other
Edison Storage Battery cells manufactured by said Company the
royalty payable to me shall bear the same proportion to the royalty
of 60 cento per cell as the capacity of such other colls shall
bear to the capacity of the standard A-4 cell. After all of
tlie Canadian patents have expired, the royalty shall cease.
It must also be understood that I shall further partic¬
ipate in the surplus earnings of the said Canadian Edison- Storage
Battery Company, Ltd. , to the extent of 50$ of the net profits
(6)
after a 7# dividend shall have been paid on the preferred stock
actually issuqd and sold for cash, said 7% dividend to he cumu¬
lative. Such distribution of any surplus earnings shall he
made within ninety days after tho end of each and every fiscal
year of said Canddian Edison Storage Battery Company, ltd. ,
and for the purpose fif such distribution there shall be an
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annual accounting made by public accountants of the businoss
done by said Company in each year. The above participation by
me in the surplus earnings of the Company shall rciaain in force
during the life of the Company.
Royalties shall bo paid for quarterly, and all amounts
duo me shall be payable at my discretion cither in Toronto or
Hew York.
The charter of said Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Company, ltd. , shall expressly provide
(l) That the Company shall not increase its capital
nor to consolidate with or purchase any other Company.
( S) That the Company shall not sell or transferrin any
way impair the rights acquired under my said patents.
( 3 ) That the Company shall not use its earnings for
increasing the capacity of its plant or^put in reserve moro than
10$ of its not earnings, hut the Company may increase its capital
stock for extending its factory capacity or to provide for
necessary working capital.
(4) That the Company shall not purchase or manufacture
any other article than the Edison Storage Battery.
(5) That the Company shail not go into the business
of routing «.*«crl^ ^ Leu_ fc ,# wj
(6) That the. Company shall not enter into any obliga-
tions beyond its capacity to pay therefor from its cash capital.
If the laws of the Dominion of Canada prohibit the
inclusion of the above restrictions in the charter of the Com¬
pany to bo formed, then it must be understood that these re¬
strictions shall be embodied in an agreement to be made between
the Canadian Edison Storage Battery Co. , Ltd. , and myself boforo
any rights under said patents are acquired.
The Company will agree that I shall have the right to
nominate and have elected one representative on the Board of
Diroctors or Executive Committee of said Company so long as said
(7)
Company may exist.
The Company will agree -not to sell Edison Storage
Batteries for export to any country nor knowingly to sell Edison
Storage Batteries to persons, firms or corporations who do an
exporting Business, unless with my express permission or that of
my legal representatives or assigns. On my own part I will
agree that in the sale of any rights under the Edison Storage
Battery patents in other countries I will insert corresponding
provisions in any license agreements prohibiting importation into
Canada.
The expense £f any lawsuits or other legal proceedings
brought by or against the Company and involving the right of said
Company to exploit my Canadian patents shall be divided equal'' y
between said Company and myself. Said Company shall consult and
be guided by me or my legal representatives or assigns in the
event of any patent suit brought by or against said Company, and
in every such case I shall bo entitled to employ special counsel
to follow my own instructions and to control the suit in collabor¬
ation with the counsel of said Company?
(8)
I will also agree to furnish at cost to said Company
drawings of any improved machinery for manufacturing the batter¬
ies which I may make during tho life time of the Company, and
after the Company is formed I will agree to furnish active
materials necessary for the battery at a profit of 25$ over
and above actual cost.
It must also be understood that until the Canadian
Edison Storage Battery Company, ltd. , is on a substantial
basis a3 a going coneom (that is, until such time as it pays
expenses and fixed charges ) I shall have entire technical control
thereof, shall decide what manufacturing operations are to be
carried on, by whom and in what manner manufacturing shall be
performed, whether any factory shall be constr ctod, and, if so,
the location and mode of construction and capacity thereof,
and all drawings and plans shall be subject to my approval.
A report of the business done by the said Company
shall be made to me each month during the entire life of the
company, and the books of the company shall be open for inspection
by me or my legal representatives or assigns at any time upon
(9)
reasonable notice.
It will finally be understood with the Canadian Edison
Storage Battery Company, Ltd. , that the agreement above outlined
to bo uade with said Company shall terminate upon the failure of
said Company to carry out any of the terms and conditions
thoroof, but without prejudice to any claims which I, iny heirs,
legal reprosentativs or assigns may have against the said Com¬
pany.
Sho proposition above outlined contemplates the forma¬
tion of two Companies, the first known as the "Canadian Storage
Battery Vehicles, ltd. , being formed to manufacture electric
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vehicles for use with Edison Storage Batteries to be purchased
from Orange; and the second known as the "Canadian Edison Storage
Battery Company, limited", being later formed to manufacture
Edison Storage Batteries in Canada when a sufficient demand for
the same exists.
It must be distinctly understood that if you or your
associates fail promptly to take the necessary stops to form
a manufacturing corporation when requested to do so by me, I
(10)
shall have the right to grant licenses under my said Canadian
patents for manufacturing Edison Storage Batteries in Canada
to any other person, finn or corporation.
Yours very truly,
President.
"oas° noto lf NAME- BUSINESS and ADDRESS correspond with your inquiry.
M 0 Y E S JOHN W. — - — promoter & Financial Agent — TORONTO,
RBV-39-340 -June-8-1910. 29 Melinda Stf ^ ‘
■ffn-n +*,„ „ + on About 65 years of age and married.
past,2? ?r ?5 y0ars he baa been interested in
prom°ting and building eleotric ' railways in different
S.Of^0 Dominion of Canada. He is a Consulting engineer
+£Lh had °°n?iderable work in this line. He was one of
■h«rierS+vf+the MetroP°litan Division of the York Radial
Ry.- before that oompany sold out to the Toronto Raywail Co.
He afterwards did oonsiderabie in the North West.^nd at the
S?n^nLtimr 18 ?f°?04tine and building the Ontario & West
+n Rp * G° r ' ?hdch, 1 ® Proposed to run from Kincardine
Ha Vi-? G2£ericl1* The contract work on this road
,the 2u£on instruction Co.’ The projeot is beinsr
finanoed by the sale of bonds of the railway. °
. . . Financially speaking, Mr; Moyes is not
+wf\t0 h?ve,a great deal of 'means in his own right,
though controls some Capital. This company has an authorised
fi4?’00?’ 1Es connections -
seeSS n?«j4 prof e BBional capacity , and he should hot be
seeming oredit in his own name.
6-8rl0.#5 3700 ‘ w n
Juno 10, 1910.
John ¥/. Moyos, Esq. ,
The Glon, Door Parle,
Toronto, Canada.
Dear Mr. Moyos:
I think tho contemplated proposition from Mr.
Edison to you on tho subject of tho Edison Storage Battoxy in
Canada has boon now worked out into final share along tho linos
that we discussod between us. I have urged upon Mr. Edison,
howovor, that it would bo unwise for him to make such an important
concession until he had first had the opportunity flf looking more
closely into tho question of the financial responsibility of
you and the other gentlemen with whom you are associated. I am
suro you will take this suggestion from me in tho right spirit,
since, as I told you, I have a very heavy responsibility in
seeing that Mr. Edison is properly protected, as ho himself is
inclined to bo more or less impulsive.
Would it be quite convenient for me to meet you in
Toronto some time noxt week and at that tirao see tho other
gentlemen who are with you and have the opportunity of talking
over the nooessary questions with your banking frionds and others?
Dot me know what days you expect to be in Toronto and I will
arrange to come thoro on one of those days.
Yours very truly, .
ELD/lWW , _ Vioo-Pres.
RECEIVED at__ _
DatecLV / cn c^Cfc>
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(JP^X—^6 ^
To -
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Harry Killer,
Date (June 7th, 1910)
July 15/10
per contract is accepted.
Stock co. has been organized. This was only matter
contingent on date of contract.
Churchill.
C-O-P-Y.
July 21, 1910.
John \7. Hoyea, Esq..,
The Glen, Deer Park,
Toronto, Canada.
My dear Mr. Hoyes:-
The agreement of June 7th, 1910 provides
tha,t prior of July 15th, 1910, "The Company will immediately
take steps to complete or procure a factory, etc." I merely call
your attention to this matter in order that it may not he overlooked.
I wish you would write me from time to time, telling me how the work
is progressing as I am necessarily very much interested in your
proposition.
Yours very truly ,
ped/akic.
Vice-President.
C-O-P-Y.
July 21, 1910.
John \’I. noyes, Es q. ,
The Glen, Deer Park, •
Toronto, Canada.
Hy dear Mr. Hoyes:-
In reference to the arrangements now
existing between Mr. Edison and yourself for the exploitation
of the Edison Storage Battery in Canada, it was provided in
the preliminary agreement that in case you went ahead with
the manufacture of storage batteries in Canada, the company
to be formed would be entitled to the benefit of all of Mr.
Edison's inventions relating to storage batteries that he migh
make up to ten years from the date of the contract, namely,
until June 7th, 1920, You and yoir associates wish
to have this feature of the proposed contract modified so
that the company, if formed, would he entitled to any of Mr.
Edison's inventions on storage batteries that he might make
during the existence of any Canadian patents now in force.
Our latest Canadian patent is dated February 26th, 1907,
and expires on February 26th, 1925. I am glad to inform you
that Mr. Edison consents to a modification: of the agreement
to the extent that if the Canadian Edison Storage Battery
Company is formed, the company will he entitled to the same
#2 - John \'f. Hoyes, Esq.
rights under any of Ur. Edison's storage battery inventions
that m.qr he made prior to February 26th, 1925*
I have had Ur. Edison approve this letter here¬
under so that you may know that it comes with proper authority
Yours vexy truly ,
fid/aek
Vice-President,
July 25, 1910.
Jolm I.loyoo, JEcrj.,
She Cion, Deer Pari:,
Toronto , Canada.
Dear Mr. Iioyos:
I tie not- Imow whether you have formed uny do finite
jjudgraont or not regarding tho cement proposition, • 'but I tun Bonding
you herewith certified copies of our four Canadian patonts, which
I prosuno you would wioh to have investigated by your oolicitor.
Patent Ho. 65,594 eovora broadly tho Giant Holla; alao
one form of Grinding Ho 11b ; and aloo tho Stack Dryer.
Patent lie. 70,56V covorc the oo-callod Shroo-lligh Holla
which wore uaod at Mr. Edison's ore -milling plant but which I
undoratend aro not used at tho content plant.
Patent Ho. VO, 568 eovora tho detaila of Hr. Edison’s
Screening Apparatus .
Patent Ho. 100,908 covers tho long Kiln, which, as wo
have .told you, 'is being very largely uaod in this country and
will eventually bo universal.
I regard tho first and last of these patents as the most
important. So far as the Giant Rolls is concerned, tlioir use
io being very groatly ontondod and the royaltios wo are receiving.
John '
lioyoo.
fa)
7/35/10.
xrom Quarries and other outside sources amount to quite a respect-
able ncaar *te». Bit], too tawMooo dovolpoont or Oonojo
* em°* *“^ar —» 00=0. wx
°f ***** **«*> « ««M otooo, oo «„* 1 thiol:
o.ato ontoido or too oo„o„t proposition too ooo„ioia„» «. ^
to too Moat Hollo irill to o vclntolo proport?.
** te™ ai» «**»* toooo potoivto M should
you decide not to 70 further into t>o nutter r h--
u..o looter X msn you v/ould r0-
tui-n the patents to no.
Yours very/ truly.
vm/mr
Enc-
Oenoral Counsel.
(Shttarm Urst IRmhuag
(SH&fffilf, (Burnt Iiu.
TORONTO,
July, 27, 19X0.
Frank L. Dyer, Esq.,
Barrister, The Edison Storage Co., H. J.
Dear Mr Dyer,
I hog to acknowledge your letter with
memorandum of agreement also tho ooples of patents in the oement matter
and I have duly noted oontents of same.
I regret, however, to say that sinoe
X was at West Orange I have boon very poorly and am at prosent laid up
in the house unable to get about.
In the matter of the Vehiolo Co., I
have been getting options on suitable property and I have at this time what
looks like a suitable site before me and whon I am ablo to bo out will
olose with mie of the two or three eligible looations.
At this partioular time of the year every
body is out of term and it is very hard to got our people togothor though
we are losing no time' now that every body is satisfied in tho matter of our
business arrangements .
I have engaged a good man to prooeod
with organization and within a week or two I am going to ask the liberty
of taking him down to Orange in order that he may get instruction in tho
methods you adopt whioh I am dosirious shall be as far as possible oarried out
hero.
toift. The oement proposition at this time
looks very promislng"all the people who propose going into this matter
When I whs in Lansden Co., plaoe at
Newark I got from them dome prints of truoks whioh they have turned out at
various times and I had a conversation with the young man who is manager
down there. but I got no prioes from him on any of those as I really did not
kno t what we would want for the trade here.
I have however suooeeded in plaoing the
truoks even though I had no prioe.
Owing to my inability to get down this
week I will feel greatly indebted to you if you oould arrange for the shipment
of two (2) of the truoks to Toronto, one Ho. 243 ton truok 12/5 platform with
60 A. S oells giving S miles an hour fpr 40 miles and one (I) 20001b. truok
Sft. 3»/.46"f60" high inside No. L, 222 with 60 A. 6 oells giving 10 miles
an hour 45 miles.
Ask him to make the prioe ns low as
he possibly oan in view of our having to pay a very high duty (35$) tin this
olass of goods; this is a severe draw baok to business when the oonsumer
has to pay but at the moment we will have to get them as oheap as possible
ns see at praotioally no profit to us in order to keep a trade going here until
7t> adC
we produoe ourselvos. I know you will
havii thorn do tho host that onn be done fop ue under the oiroumstanoos please
send the battorios for these trucks to Hownrk H. J. to bo shipped in tho
oar with the Vohiolos but bell the Lansden people not to put the batteries
in the wagons; by this method we save a little in duty on the Storago Battery
You will of oourse invoioe the Storage Bitttery
direot here and ssnd the usual duplioate invoioes for tho oustoms and ourselves
I trust that the Lansdon people will Jr
see that everything in these two oars is in A I oondition as they are going V
into a plaoo that will make or mar our truok business here, I regret that I UmL
no ndviae of the shipment of tho small bntteries for lighting or ignition
purposes; I would be glnd if they oould be forwarded soon, as llr Walker who
went down to Ornnge to see the Storage Battory in operation is anxious to
make a test with one of these battorios to go in his repart.
I hope you have not forgotten the promise
you made about ooming up for a few days fishing on Lake Huron.
We are laready for you and have notified
tho fisheries department; thoro is nothing left for you to do but to oome
up and haul them out.
With kindoot regards, beleive me,
Yours truly,
$7iM<no(tnj#S
Jolm iV. ’.Ioyoo, ."so.,
The Glen, Do or Park,
Toronto, Canada.
Doo.r Mr. I.ioyoB:
Yoiu.' favor of the 37 th inct. has juot boon
rocoivcd and I havo fold Mr. Lansdon to go riel it ahead
with the order for tho two trucks and let you have them
jiiet as coon ac possible. If your order in not clear
to him ho v/ill v/rito direct to you.
So far as the price is concerned, wo will
maho thie just a.G low as wo eun.
Your instructions regarding the batteries will
bo carried out.
I am jiist loaving to join my family at the
(Thousand I elands, but ewpeot to bo back hero off and on
be tv/o cn now and labor Day, and if you will let me know
oractly when you ospoot to eomo , I v/ill try to be on
hand.
I thank you vory much for your kind invitation
to go fishing and I hope lator in the Summer to be able
to accept.
FED/lVfiZ
Yours veiy truly,
Vico-Prooidont .
Orange
J. , July 29, 1910.
Mr. J. II. loan Aon, Jr.,
She Iansdon Co. ,
Dear Sir:
54 laolcawonna Avc . ,
Ilcwurk, II. J.
xiio following is a copy :
• uoyoo lottor
oi thc 27-fcli inct. regarding the order for two truoteu
t irin -p "°'7inGj Jo ray inability to cot down thin week
truck 0 ft. 3" * 46” x 60- hiGh insido IIo.‘ 1, S22 “th
CO A- 6 colls c iving 10 mi loo an hour 45 miles.
htv »„•, him„'i:o at*° the price as low as ho possi-
IsMor/tu-i n°!-i °U~ hQnnc t? pay Q vory higli duty
In Tinr??nnni,Dl °iU+i“ °X G°'jiC* r3llB iG G SOVOre drawback
to DUoinono when tho oonsumor lias to pay hut at tho
nnn W? ra 11 vav° to get them as chcau as possible
see at, praotically no profit to us in order to hoop
von f,crQ ^til v;o produce ourselves. I know
you will Iiavo them do uho best that con bo done for us
°lrc™1Gtanops. Please send tho batteries
for uhoGG 1;inic.i.G to llev/ark, II • J. to to Ghinpod in tho
f T,Ghi?l0S? ^ 130:11 *cho Jena don poonlo not
lavo " i-n t^ r°rl°Lln ^ v/afons; hy tliis method w5“
lj£U0 a little in ciuty on the storage battory.
_ You 'Jill oo^so invoioo tho storaco battorv
di-oci bore anct oond the usual duplicate invoicos for ^
tho customs and oursolvos." r
Please advise me if this is clear to you, and
if not I suggest that you write direct to Mr- Moyos.
Also dog that his requost regarding the batteries is
carried out.
Regarding -the "oilling of these tmeha, see
me before you do this, heenuKe v/o want to main Hr.
I.IoyoB a npocial price.
Yours very truly.
jPED/lVAV
fro si dent.
August 13, 1910.
J. V7. Tioyes, Esq, ,
The Glen, Deer Park,
Toronto, Canada.
I !y dear Mr. Moyess-
The oontraot between Mr, Edison and
yourself of June 7th, provides that .‘$250,000 of the pre¬
ferred stook of the Vehiole Company "shall be sold for
cash to you and your associates and the money paid into
the treasury of the corporation within sixty dnyB of
the date hereof". Please advise me if this haB been
done. Could you conveniently obtain for me a certifi¬
cate signed by your Banker or by two of the Company's
Directors that 1 can show Mr. Edison on this point?
If not convenient, a letter from you I am sure will be
sufficient for him.
Yours very truly,
PLD/AHK.
Vioe-Pr esident ,
August 1G, 1910
Credit Department
Regarding the attached correopondenee
on tlie subject of John V/. i.'oycs of Toronto, note that any
batteries chipped Ur. hoyeo either from Orange or Detroit,
are to be billed subject to settlement on regular terms,
with H0‘/' discount. Any batteries that may be shipped Mr.
Moyen from Detroit by the Zuider son Carriage Company will
be taken out of the consignment stock and billed to us
by the An demon Carriage Company. Y/e will then give the
Anderson Carriage Company credit for the batterioo so
shipped and bill the same againot Ur. Uoyes.
J>’. L. Dyer.
VLB/ AUK.
(Copy to iir. Bee)
i.£t>u.v { 2/
Sept. 30,1910.
Mr. John '.7. lloyes ,
She Glen,
Deer Bark, Toronto,
Canada.
My dear Mr. Ho yes : -
I wrote you on August ISth in
reference to the contract with Hr. Edison, hut so far
have not roocivod a reply from you. Possibly, the letter
may have miscarried, and I therefore beg to oncloso a
copy. I will be very plad if you will give this matter
your immediate attention, in order that I may make tho
necessary report to Mr. Edison.
Yours very truly,
.ABE. Vico-.'-ros
PhD,
si dent.
[ATTACHMENT!
Mr. John ¥/. Moyes,
®ho Glen, Door Park,
Toronto , Canada.
My dear Mr. Moyes : -
I think I am justified in regis¬
tering a very strong protoBt as to the way you are
treating ub. I have written repeated letters to you,
hut have never received an answer. Some time ago 1
wrote a letter to Mr. Clark, asking if you wore ill,
and he roplied that he could not understand why you
did not answer our letters. You muat realize that
this is a very important matter to us and that Mr.
Edison i3 constantly asking me questions regarding the
Canadian situation and I am not able to answer them.
Also, we have referred a number of inquiries to you
regarding the ba'tory in Canada, ana you do not attend
to these inquiries. For example, Mr. E, 77* Hartman
of Clarksburg, wrote us regarding the battery and we
referred him to you, and ho now writes us that he is
- Mr. John V/. Moyes.
unable to got on answer from you. The same is also
truo of Mr. S. Hamilton of Spanish, Ontario, who can
got no satisfaction from you. We have also referred
other inquiries and I presume those are boing treated
in tho same way. If there is any hitch occurring in
your negotiations with your assooiatos, lot mo know,
and I will try to straighten it out for you. Under
tho oontraot of Juno 2nd, last, you woro to form a
corporation within thirty days and were to sell the
stoolc within sixty days from that date. 1 have not
heard from you whethor this has been done. This was
a stipulation of tho contract that you agreed to per¬
form and wo are certainly entitled to know how you
are getting on. I appreciate from what I hoar that
your health i3 not good, but certainly by this time
you should have the corporation going and in the hands
of people who can attend to its dotails. Please also
remember that beginning next March you must bcgiiji
to ordor batteries in quantities and that time is not
far off, bo that you ought to be taking every step
necessary to got in position to handle the business
by March 1st. I don't mind telling you that this whole
situation is very annoying to me and I oannot possibly
understand why we are not kept fully informed as to
ho situation and particularly why our lotters are not
5'S - Hr. John V/. Moyos.
answered. I must, thorofore, inaiet that this letter
bo immediately answorod by you and that wo bo supplied
with all the information regarding what you are doing
in Canada. Unloss this is done, we will have to take
steps to immediately terminate tho arrangement with you
ana look to other people for tho proper development
of tho battery in Canada.
Yours very truly,
FID/ ARK.
Vice-President.
|4.c ( <S~/
Hov. 21, 1910.
Hr. John 7/. Moyes,
The Glon, Beer Park, N
Toronto, Canada.
Hy dear Hr. Hoyos : -
Your favor of the 16th inst. has
been recoivod, and I note you expect to como dov/n to
Orange some time this wook. I will be very glad indeed
to see you, in order to discuss the Canadian situation.
If you cannot come, udvise mo by holograph, 'and I will
arrange to go up to Toronto Borne time next wook. In
fact I had substantially planned to do this, beoauEe
there arc obiter matters in Toronto requiring my atten¬
tion.
Yours very truly.
? ED/ ARK,
Vi co-?ro ei&ent.
Rrank i:. Dyer,
Barrister, oto.,
Orange, E. J.
Dear Mr. Dyer,
Enolosad I bo:* to hand youroport
made by n University professor, and as X havo
of this, I would bo glad when you are through
battery
i it to have
I am taking up the various matters disousod, and
'ill toko them up with you shortly.
With kindest regards, believe me,
Yours truly,
J. W. Moyes ,
por .11. .Graham .
ll/JVM
Mr. John W. Moyos,
S3 Scott Street,
Toronto, Canada.
Dear Sir:-
I havo roceivoa yours of the 28th ult. enclos¬
ing roport on the Eaieon Battery made hy a university pro¬
fessor, and also a report hy Messrs. Chapman & Walker, ltd.
These X roforred to our expert on the storage hattory, who
went carefully into the mattete^ndj-r.ephrttsses follows:
. "The results obtained in tosts of Edison
batteries by Messrs. Chapman & Walker, Ita. , of
Toronto, aro abnormal in most respects; ana this
is due, I think, partly to aefectivo methods of
testing and partly to irregularities in the cellB
tested.
Taking up first tho laboratory tosts, I
note that type "B-4" cells wore used ana that these
wore ngw. Bow tho "B-4" coll is designed for low-
ourrent work, such as ignition and lighting, ana
its polos and connection parts arc designed for cur¬
rents not exceeding tho normal of 16 omporos. At
if 2 - JJr. John XI. Moyos.
hiehor current ratos than this there would ho
considerable volt drop in the motal parts, resulting
in low voltage at tho poles. Ho raontion is made
in tho report of the voltage points to which discharges
wore carried, which, of course, malcos considerable
difference in tho result. It is customary to oarry
high-rate discharges to lower voltage than low- rato
discharges, for roasons given in pages 14-16 of the
one lo sod paper "Tho 1910 Edison Storago Battery".
If this was not done, tho output at high rates of
discharge would apparently bo greatly decreased.
Furthermore, thoso colls wore now and thorefaro not
up to the normal standard of working, as it tokos
some weeks of running before their formation is com¬
plete. fSoo pages 10-11 of paper oitod abovo). Tho
cells should have boon worked normally for several
runs beforo the spocial tests were commenced, and
each test made should have been repeated immediately
to ensure reliable results.
Howcvor, taking all these points into con¬
sideration, there is still a discrepancy in tho result;
and I can account for it only by assuming that the
olootrolyto in the colls was weak , due to slopping
in transit or some other reason. The olootrolyto in
oells as received from tho factory should have a
specific gravity of 1.200 to 1.210. Tho results of
#3 - Ur, John V l. Koyes.
tests V and VII show evidence of weak electrolyte
as tho volt ago b thoro obtained are extremoly lov7.
Ao to tho rosults obtained in tosts of "A-6"
oo 11s takon from on automobile, those are also some¬
what low; but not knowing the details of tho tests or
tho condition of tho colls, I can offer no explana¬
tion. Eh^^'thoso cells showed much bettor results
in low temperature working, was probably duo to their
being older, and therefore in better working condition
than the "B-4" colls, and was not due to any diffor-
onco of design as suggested.
Our figures as to output and efficiency have
boon corroborated by She Electrical Seating labora¬
tories of Hew 'fork, as reported by them at the Sop-
tombor 1910 Convention of tho Association of Edison
Illuminating Companies,"
Ur, Holland is in every way qualified to reply
to the roports you sent and you oon rely absolutely on
all ho has said.
As requested, I rotum tho report of your
university professor and I include also a copy of Mr.
Holland’s article on the Storage Battery,
Yours very truly.
Vice -Pro si dent.
BqCXIk, { 9/ .
TI-IOMAS A. EDISON
President Vicc-Pn
FRANK L. DYER
esideni and General Counsel
Storage
E. G. DODGE
General Manager
Battery
ORANGE, NEW JERSEY December 8th, 1910.
Mr. Frank I. Dyer,
o/o King Edward Hotel,
IOROHIO , Ontario.
My dear Mr. Dyer:-
In regard to the situation of Mr. ,T. W. Moyes, of #33 Scott
Street, Toronto, I beg to hand you below particulars of various
enquiries which we have received from the Canadian territory
and which we in turn referrod to Mr. Moyes for attention, but
which he apparently omitted to follow up as we have receivod
a number of complaints to the effect that they wore unable to
obtain the desired information from Mr. Moyes
On October 26th Mr. E. IV. Bender, General Purchasing Agent of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad Co., Montreal, sent ns an enquiry
which v/e referred to Mr. Moyes on Ilovembor 4th. Since that
date Mr. Bender has communicated v/ith us several times advising
that he was unable to secure any reply from Mr. Moyes, and as
we also failed to get any acknowledgement from Mr . Moyes in
regard to the matter we quoted the party direct.
There are numerous other complaints of a like nature, a brief
list which follows;-
Date of original enquiry. Date referred to Mr. Moyes. Result.
IJov. 4th, from the Bolton
light, Heat & Power Co.,
Bolton, Ontario, Hovomber 8th. Ho reply.
Oct. 25th. C. Hewman,
101 Portland Street,
Toronto, Ontario, n 1st. " "
Oct. 31st, W.R.King & Co.,
Penticton, B. C., " 9th, " "
V/e have numerous compaints of a like character, but trust the
above will answer your requirements.
v/cb/bi.
JTERY CO. ,
Manager' of Sales'.
1910. Battery - Storage - Metals (D-10-10)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's interest in obtaining metals such as lithium, cobalt, and bismuth for
possible use in his alkaline storage battery. The correspondents include
American Smelting and Refining Co., E. Schaaf-Regelman, and Merck & Co.
There are also letters from individuals possessing information about sources
and prices of bismuth. Some of the letters contain marginal notations by
Edison.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of letters offering metals in which Edison
had no interest.
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(Drrs, 2! a re iHiiirnils, (Gems,
•Slslirslos, Cfni&c ain't ^ihre
Cdrjitiunr: 13 7" JUriKnl
<Cablr Ailiirrse: piigtniug
-tV. |U. C. (Euiir, illi * 5H, J-n
?f*ta gorh, ?T. fj. jan. 31-1010.
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In pursuance of my letter of last, Saturday I now beg to ad-
/\Vt -
vise that the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works have inforaST me that there
Is a radical chance in the market for LITHIUM CARBONATE, as was to
be expected, the manufacture of it has proved unremunorutive , and the
output has greatly decreased of late, therefore stocks are very low
at present and the Mallinckrodts would need a few weeks for the exe¬
cution of your order, which, they could take at the price of 55/. per
lb., with a special discount of 5% for you if orderod at once. I
trust that you will see fit to confirm your order at this price, and
thanking you again for your consideration in this matter I am
ESR/3H
Very truly yours.
M. it <9 a f ~ c g c 1 tmut
(Drrs, Jinrc iliim-riils, firms,
Aclirstris, Grin'll- nni> ^ilirr
(Trlrpliaitr: 13!" JUroaii
Giiftlr Afttirriia: 3ciiiirnins
A. ?». <C. (Cafe, -ill) «: 5tb gb. 21 ^rtnir Slrcrt (Batlrru garb JBliig.)
TJIirhrr’u (£oiir 311m tern ^Iiiintt (Cufre
A&~ j,
CM.
Hr. H. ?. Hill-
Secretary to Hr. 71m
VVL~
JCcln {Jorli, 10-161
J/T’i
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seeing you wish to submit my proposition to Hr. TC cl icon personally, T
will rath or males it by writ in;;, requesting you, h owover, to treat, the
followl nr very confidentially and to kindly see to it that no in¬
formation in this regard leaks out through any channels whatsoever .
The Hallinckrodt Chemical viorks, at. hnuis, Ho. are very
anxious to secure Hr. Edison* s businosr. in ITTPTtJH CAItSOHATS through
mo. The present wholesale price quoted by Merck & Co., ns well as
by the Hallinckrodt Chemical Dorics, is 55 / per lb.; as a special in¬
ducement the Mali inckrod tn offer Mr. 3d i. non a discount of 3#, if Hr.
Edison's contract calls for loss than 5.CCO lbs. Should Mr. Edison
see fit to .contract for more than 5 ,Cr'C Lbs., <u?- wnci', the rebate
would be 5#, but if iir. Edison wants to make a contract for 10,000 lbs.
or more- a rebate of 7-1/2# will be allowed. Mallinckrodts guarantee
that their price will always be as low as that of Merck and all de¬
liveries are to bo invoicad at the price ruling at the date of ship¬
ment ; rebates to be given with the last shipment in 1910.
Thus Car Mallinckrodts ' proposal; but. as it. is oxpooted that
the price of Lithium Carbonate will advance quite some during this
year T would personally advise Mr. TSdison to make this counterpropo¬
sition: To order through mo whatever quantity of Lithium Carbonate
he can take care of during this year at the firm price of 55/ per lb.
wit), the above rebates, making Mallinckrodts guarantee that they will
bill thoir goods at less than 55/ per lb. if Merck should at any time
during 1010 make a lower offer. Mr. 'Micon should not agree to have
deliveries invoiced to him at the price ruling at date of shipment,
as the Mallinckrodts propose, .if this prices- is higher than 55/ per
lb., but have a guarantee against a fall in price.no matter how un¬
likely.
My personal opinion is that, I can get the Mallinckrodts to
accept such a proposition if Mr. Sdison contracts for 10,000 lbs; I
do not. think that, they will accept it. for less. 1 place myself in a
precarious position by making such a proposition, hut, appreciating
very much the kindness end consideration Mr. Sdison has always shown
the undersigned, T place myself entirely at his disposal for purchasing
anything ho may need at the most advantageous figure that, can be se¬
cured anywhere, and 7. beg to impress upon you once' more the necossit'-
of treating this letter strictly confidential.
Very truly yours.
c(. rteczcz.
RAHWAY. N.J.
E. MERCK’S
DARMSTADT
LABORATORIES
MERCK (Sl CO.
MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS
NEW YORK.
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My dear Mr. Kdiaon:-
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When X called on you with Dr, Schaefer shortly >
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before your departure for the South, you kindly offered to
let me know the figure at whloh the Lithium Oxide which you
prepare from the Carbonate stood you. May I trouble you to
authorize some one in your laboratory to supply me with
this figureT
Hoping that you are having pleasant weather
and with kind regards to Mrs. Edison and yourself, i am,
Yours sinoerely,
Kindly inform Mr. Edison that I can make contract -for any
quantity of LITHIUM CARBONATE at the same price which Mr. Merck quotes
namely, 50f( per lb. and that I think that. I can get the Mallinekrod ts
to give Mr. Edison a gooddiscount off this price If Mr. Edison will
contract for several tons. I would like Mr. Edison to state how many
tons he cares to contract for and to specify what delivery and discoun
he wants and T will try to get the business through.
Very truly yours.
WORK8' G/k3/
ST. LOUIS Ploa»o
RAHWAY. N.J.
E. MERCK'S
DARMSTADT
LABORATORIES
MERCK (SL CO.
manufacturing chemists
NEW YORK, Feb. 25/10
Edison Storage Battery Co.
Orange
N.J.
Gentlemen
We have your favor of yesterday's date inclosing
order #23040, for two tons LITHIUM CARBONATE at prioe quoted,
50/ per lb., for shipment to Orange, N.J., via D.L. & W. R.R.,
one ton to be forwarded at once and the remaining ton in two or
three weeks. We thank you very much for this order, which shall
have our prompt .and careful attention.
Awaiting your further favors, we are,
Yours truly,
Attested MERCK & CO.
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Dear Sir:- j
Referring to your favor of April 26th, I begtt state
that I am no longer connected with the U. S. Smelting, Refining &
Mining Oo., hut have referred your communication to Mr. F. Y. Rohortson,
Manager of the U. S. Metals Refining Company, which Company owns the
plant at Grasselli, Ind., producing Bismuth.
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of Bismuth, and would he pleased if you will hear this in mind in case
at any time you should require services in that line.
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Way 3, 1910.
Mr .Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, IT. J.
Dear Sir:-
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BISMUTH.
Replying to your favor of May 2na, in which you
inqtiire whether or not I know of a source of Bismuth which
would permit of the production of the material at a price of
85^ per lh., I Beg to state that I do not know of any such
supply. I shall however Be glad to keep this matter in
mind, and if in future I come across any supply that would
Bo interesting to you, I shall take pleasure in advising
you about it.
hap/b
Very truly yours.
United States Metals Reeinino Co,
**w You* ornoi, 42 BROADWAY
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. , Thomas A. Edison,
Orange , New Je:
I have your letii
that Mr, Edison will not starlf
til next year.
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and quality of hismuth Mr. Edison will use, we
shall he glad to take up the question of price.
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FYR/AGB
United Statjss Metals Refining Co.
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BISMUTH
I have your letter of the 10th instant,
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Yours very truly,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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WASHINGTON
IE DIRECTOR
May 13, 1910.
Mr. H. B. Killer, Sec'y.,
laboratory of Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey.
Hear Sir:-
In response to your letter of May 9, requesting
information relating to the discovery of bismuth ores
in the United States and Canada, from which bismuch
could be produced cheaply:
The most recent and largest discovery of bismuth
ore known to this Survey is the deposit of the Bankers
Mining and Tunnel Company, Winfield, Chaffee County,
Colorado. It cannot, however, be stated by this Survey
whether bismuth can be produced cheaply or not. As you
probably know, bismuth is being produced as a by-product
by several companies in the United States.
I am sending you under another cover a separate
from Mineral Resources of the United States for 1908
upon the production of bismuth, which will give you some
further information upon the subject.
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You may be ln^jprestedvln knowingjthat .we a£t prtxluo-
ing Selenium, Tellurl^a, Cadmium, s(t certain of our plants, and are
prepared to furnls^Tthese metals in such quantities as may be called
for, and at reasonable priQhu^ We have thought you would be inter¬
ested in having this information in connection with your own ex¬
perimental work, and we thought hi so that you^mlgLtf feorTof certain
lines in which these metals might be advantageously used whioh we
would be glad to follow up in our own research laboratories. Would
you mind letting us know (1st) if you yourself are interested in any
one of these metalB in your own laboratory or in your own experi¬
ments, and (2d) how we might proceed in developing a market for
these metals by experiments in our own laboratories. The results
which you have accomplished have been so wonderful and your range of
experiments haB been so wide that it haB occurred to us there may ba
some advantage to you in knowing that any one of thebe metals is now
to be bought on a commercial basis.
Yours
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^m^^eltihg^^^^nihg CO.,
ADDBSSO.WMTHEE,
*BD AAC.COOZ8 USED.
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Mr, Thomas A, Edison,
Valley Road, 17. Orange, IT. J. A
Dear Sir:-
In reference to the Biamuth about which you were speaking with
my father. I am on the track of a oarload of Bismuth ore, whioh besides
the Biamuth contents would run quite high in Gold and Silver, and I will be
obliged if you will let me know whether or not you could make payment for
the precious metals in Bismuth ore.
A correspondent of mine in the West has offered me aome
metallic Tellurium. Are you interested in this material, and if so, what
price oould you afford to pay for it? \
Hoping to hear from you at your early convenience, I am
D. P. E.
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July 5,1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, IT. J. // \j
*ear Sir:
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Your esteemed favor of the 30th ult. received. Up
to the present time the demand for the metals in question has been
so insignificant as to prohibit our getting them on to a commer¬
cial basis, and by this we mean at a low cost. The quantities
marketable are so insignificant that we have not felt warranted in
going to any expense in fitting up for their production, and as a
result the cost of recovery has been very considerable and necessa¬
rily our selling prices have been based on cost of production. In
a general way, for reasonable sized lots we would say the present
market prices are about as follows?
Selenium
Tellurium
$4.00 per lb.
5.00 "
We could very materially cut these prices in the ever
that such a demand is found for any one of these metals as to warrai
our taking up their production on a commercial basis. We are most
pleased to know that you are interests! in these metals, and you
will find us more than willing to oo8p< rate with you in getting the
prices down to a basis that will permH of their being used on: a
large scale in the event that you in y«ur experiments find 'Uses for
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these metals on a large soale.
As to bismuth, we are also greatly interested in what
you say. At one of our plants we have been working for probably
two years on a scheme to produce bismuth, and this soheme is now
developing so that we hope to have some definite information as to
its outcome in the course of the next few weeks} if we are success¬
ful and are going to be able to produce bismuth, and you can send
us orders for large quantities of it, we will do our best to help
along this good work by making the price right. Would you mind
giving us an idea of how much bismuth you oan use in this new field
of work, and what price you could afford to pay for it. With this
information in hand we may feel disposed to press forward the scheme
in question by urging our Manager to its development.
ERIC AIT SMELTING & REFINING CO.
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Lucy L. Mining and Milling Company
Mines in Clifton Mining District, Tooele County, Utah
69 East Third South St,
Thomas A, Edison,
Orange ,N. J.
Salt Lake City, Utah fi'-'j &/l5/lO.
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Dear Sir:Your letter of Aug. 9 th,Inst .Adsd. to me at Altoona ,
Pa., was forwarded to me at Salt Lake City.
X am sorry to say that the railroad situation is unchanged so far as
actual construction is concernedjbut there seems to he no doubt that the
V/e stern Pacific or Clark road-or both -will soon have branches unde r way
J.Ross Clark, of the SanPedro,Los Angeles and Salt Lake road says if it had
not been for the bijg> wash out on their main line last winter, that their br
anch would have been completed by this time. The matter was under consider¬
ation here ,last week, by the officers of the CO. , but I have not been able
to find out what was done. There is a party of R.R. and smelter men in ca¬
mp nowjbut do not know juBt what interests they represent. Am satisfied th
at construction on at least one branch will begin very soon, and I believe
it will be the Clark road that will start first. If you would address a
letter of inquiry to E. A. Jeffery, 165, Broadway ,New York City, or to the
headquarters of the Harriman interests in the same city, I have no doubt
that you couldget the information that is so hard for us .to get here.
The information would be of great benefit to us, and would undoubted-
be of some interest to you. If we knew for a certainty that the road would
start soon, we could get all the money we need to put in the mill that we
need so badly. * Yours very truly, Frank L.Wilson.
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SALT LAKN (!in, TTTAH,J SKFTO.TBNB G, 1910.
ThomaB A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, IT. J.
Dear Sir:-
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Your favojr of Aug. 31st received today. Thi
party owning this Bismuth property is not able financially no^
physically on account of his eyesight, as stated in my previous
lettsr, to work his property. Therefore, it is for sale.
As far ns I have been able to learn there is
not a larger or better Bismuth mine in North America, and I know
there is a considerable quantity of high grade ore, but how much
T am not able to state.
As stated in the report there are fully 2000 ton3
of ore on the dumps, which will run fully 5# Bismuth according to
tests alreddy made.
Please let me know what you term high grade
Bismuth ore, and what is it worth to you f. o. b. cars at our
nearest station which is Milford on the Ban Pedro £ hos AngeleB
Railroad.
PleaBe let me hear from you as early as con¬
venient and return the typewritten report when you are through
with it, and oblige,
A B D H E f! S:
154 Bo. 4th Bast St.,
Salt hake Oity.
Very truly yourB,
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FRANK L. WILSON, i
f, LUCy L . Mining and Milling Company
Mines in Clifton Mining District, Tooele County, Utah
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Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
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Dear Sir: We are just beginning work on the Lucy L. property
and intend to develop the Bismuth vein extensively during the coming wint¬
er .We will also do a large amount of work on the Bismuth vein on the Wils¬
on Consolidated property. Prom these two properties there is no doubt that
we can produce a large amount of bismuth;butunder the present circumstanc¬
es, it will be impossible to ship in quantity owing to the heavy freight
charges. .It is therefor absolutely necessary to have a mill for the purpose
of concentration. It is a bad time to undertake to raise money for any pu
rpose ,but we believe it can be done with the proper effort ,and we are
anxious to get to producing. Prom your letters, we judge that you would be
glad to see uur properties upon a producing basis, since you will evident¬
ly be willing to purchase some of our bismuth for use in your new battery
We believe we can be mutually benefitted if you would agree to take
some stock in the Lucy L. Company , and have concluded to make you the follo¬
wing proposition, to wit: The Lucy L.Mining and Milling Company will agree
to Bell you 5,000 shares of its capital stock for Pive Thousand Dollars, st
ock to be delivered to you at any time .upon the payment of the Pivr Th¬
ousand Dollars .before the Ninth day of September .Nineteen Hundred and Ele¬
ven. This will give you a year in which to examine the property and if
Thomas A .Edison , Sept .9th, 1909-2.
you do not find it is a satisfactory investment ,or if for any other
reason you do not care to make the investment, then thisagreement will he
null and void. We will give you until the Twentieth day of September ,1910
to accept this option, not hearing from you by that time, we will conclude
that it is not satisfactory to you.
Yours very truly,
Lucy L. Mining and Milling CO.,
Frank L. Wilson, Gen. Mgr.
WESTERN CHEMICAL REDUCTION COMPANY
Cable Addre, MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS
LITHION— OMAHA WORKS! EAST OMAHA. NEB.
Bios. A. Edison , Esq.
■Dear Sir:-
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and consequent! more extes^i^
• of “oientific interest only for ms to know^/what
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For several years past one of yc
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toot! cat from tne Mallinclcrodt Chemical Works and Jhe Standard Esji
Co of Haywood , Sf,J, ton lots of Lnhi^’oa^bonate ,
coininc from our works , which have been, for several years peo'tvp™-
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for wa encace4 In invest Ifations about‘(tii? 's 6
minerals and have found and opened lareqd epos its }dT '-4 y
discovery of large deposits of riel ii?Mn ^
direct cause of its low price ‘h'T **
It is a
the Lithia is used for at your „,orJcs and I ask you , whether you
have any objection for commercial reasons t o convey this infor¬
mation to me. It has been claimed , that it vras used for your new
storaCe battery , but I cannot see any advantage over potash.
It seemed to me , that.it might be used for the manufacture of
Lithium metal for the convenient Generation of hydroeen and I have
quite recently filled a large order for 0arbon\te to a large
metallurgical establishment in England , which are contractors to
the British government.
In this connection I wish to state , that I have found this
summer , while examining my Eithia mines , from which we draw several
hundred tons of ore every year , the presence of workable quantities
or Poliucite , hitherto a very rare ,:ineral
possibly
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Since I have had the privilege of my lastT personal in&at
view with you I have devoted much attention to the question of sup¬
plying you with Bismuth in one form or another and, while Bismuth
Ores can be had in fairly large quantities, I do not think you could
treat them to advantage unless you wanted to go into the Gold and
Silver smelting business. Residues, 3uch as slags, flue dusts, and
others containing Bismuth, are found rich enough in but two works in
the United States to warrant the saving of Bismuth, and even In these
two instances the percentage of Bismuth found is so small that these
residues could not be transported and treated in Orange, but have to
be worked for Bismuth on the spot, and the quantity of metal result¬
ing is small and finds a ready .market at $1.65 per lb. for pharma¬
ceutical purposes. However, there are base metal ores rich in Bis¬
muth which are not worked at present, and which I could induce some
friends of mine to smelt with the object of obtaining a comparatively
large supply of Bismuth, which I could probably furnish you at a
price but slightly above $1.- per lb., provided I can absolutely and
positively guarantee my friends that the Bismuth sold to you cannot,
in any shape or manner, find its way to pharmaceutical users and that
the Bismuth, if shipped as such or in combination with chemicals , which
leaves your works is unrecoverable. If you care to outline how this
Bismuth is used, which form it is in when it leaves your factory, and
why it cannot be recoverable from any of your products, then I believe
1 can furnish vou at the nrice intimated an t.hn nUmiitt.
Lithium Carbonate. Prices are so far still unchanged. Will
you kindly favor me with another order for this yeartj shipment or fol¬
low the suggestion contained in Mr. Mallinckrodt ’s letter, which I
sent you some time ago and which, if you can lay your hands upon, I
should be glad to get back?
Respectfully yours,
bsr/sh.
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Referring to prev^^ correqBy|ience^ \vej^ilX jjoon^o ready
iroduce and market bismuth at one of our Western plants, and would
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s to know what progress you are making in vour esperim^niB— in
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iciatod with bismuth would be objectionable;
of price, quantity to be used regularly and ouch o ther information
which will help us in studying the proposition locking into getting
into tiie business.
1910. Battery - Storage - Promotional (D-10-11)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
promotion of Edison storage batteries. Included are "talking points" and other
promotional descriptions, many in Edison's hand; advertisements printed for
the Edison Storage Battery Co.; and material regarding an "ideal tour" up
Mount Washington in New Hampshire made by two automobiles equipped with
Edison storage batteries. Also included are items concerning the plans of
advertising executive, Converse D. Marsh, to promote the use of Edison
batteries in cooperation with electrical manufacturers and central stations.
Among the correspondents are Frank L. Dyer, vice president and general
counsel of the Edison Storage Battery Co.; Leonard C. McChesney, head of
the Advertising Department; and William G. Bee, sales manager.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include letters, telegrams and memoranda regarding each
leg of the Mount Washington tour; unsolicited inquiries; letters of transmittal
and acknowledgement; and documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
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MEMORANDUM
Hr. Boo: » 4/27/10.
I count on your sotting up oomploto data for an offootivo
sales tall: to Give tho salesmen who will report hero Honday mom-
ing. Boole into this question vory carefully so that thoro will
not ho any unnecessary delays in getting these men started out.
Oot up all tho Information you can that will tell thorn as much as
possihlo about our h;ttory, its advantages, how it is to he used,
the disadvantecos of the load colls and how load colls oan ho
replaced with our3. Got up a statement giving all the talking
points on our battory and liavo at loast 10 copios of all tho
papers mado so that each man oan have a copy. Bo not put this
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matter off until tho salosmon como, hut havo everything ready for
them when they report for work.
ELD/1WW
\ L. B.
The Converse D. Marsh Company-''
IS SPRUCE STREET, NEW YORK (
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l^y dear Itr. Edison:-
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You told me the other day that if you bad in the past associ¬
ated with you a business man oiLthe highest order, you would today
have more money than Rockefeller or Morgan.
That statement was a fact.
You are now starting a business that will in a few years be
larger than any you have previously originated.
It seems to me that right at this minute, before your pol¬
icies are laid down, that you should now have associated with you, a
successful business man — not only a successful business man, but a
man who has been successful in manufacturing and selling to the elec¬
tric light people — a man who knows them thoroughly, and a man they
know and respect for his successes.
Mr. Edison, I am the highest priced man in the countiy, but
my position is a unique one. I work for some of the largest corpor¬
ations in this countiy - I think I know every big successful selling
policy and eveiy big successful method of pushing sales in the countiy.
In addition I know the manufacturing and financial sides of
great businesses — praotieally.
Ifhether you want ny brains at my figure, I do not know-
but I am coming out to talk it over with you.
I am attaching a memorandum of a couple of things I have done
in business*
Very
CIM-B
The Converse D. Marsh Company
' 15 SPRUCE STREET, NEW YORK
Carry yourself baok to the start of the Phonograph business.
Do you remember how Commodore Cheever fell down in Hew England,
how lippinoott'd fell down in Ohio, how the Cahoon Syn¬
dicate were unable to do a thing in the South for lippinoott, and how
miserably the man who undertook Illinois and Indiana fell down?
Do you remember how you worked all one night to help me get started
for Michigan, and how tyro weeks after I landed there, I organized the
Michigan Phonograph Company and brought back the good cash to Dippin-
oott — the first cent he had secured when everything else was look¬
ing blue.
I was just a green bqy. I did not know a thing about business,
but I had some common sense and a little stock of energy. Immediately
following on my success in Michigan , I got a lead over in Ohio , and
after Lippinoott was nearly driven crazy for money, you may remember
I pitched in and sold the Texas Phonograph Company to Horman Raff
with your Brother-in-law. Then I started the nickle-in-the-slot
Phonograph business in Hew York, for the Hew York Phonograph Company,
and I made so much out of it the first year , that the Haynes brothers
would not renew my contract and tried to run the business themselves.
Within three months their reoeipts had dwindled down to l/3 what they
had been.
I started in the incandesoent lamp business in 1693, hut was the
smallest lamp manufacturer in America.
In 1901, after I had broken into the licensees business vihich the
General Electric considered their own, successfully , ny business was
purchased outright for oaeh at my own figure.
The Converse D. Marsh Company
• 15 SPRUCE STREET, NEW YORK
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After I sold ny lamp factory I ran the business for a year
in competition with all the other plants whioh the National
Company had consolidated. The Bryan Marsh Company sold more
lamps than any competitor, got the highest average price for them,
at a lower selling cost per lamp than any other organization in the
country.
As there was no future in the consolidation for me hut a
Balary , 1 struck out into my present line after giving the proper
notice that ny contract with the National provided for. Since that
time I have been engaged primarily as selling counsel for BOme of
the largest corporations in America, and have made as high on this
account (and in connection with an advertising company whioh I own)
$350,000 a year.
You got me greatly excited the other day over the prospects
for your battery.
I am coming out to talk with you as a consequence and this letter
is just a forerunner of my visit.
CDM-B
Commonwealth Edison Company,
May 9, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, 1T.J.
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My Dear.Edison: ** - I J '
I have your letter of the 5th, in which you aBk
me about Mr . Converse D. Marsh. Mr. Marsh made a great success
in my opinion in connection with the Bryan-Marsh incandescent
lamp business. They had very little capital, but in spite of
this fact he was able to get quite a large amount of business
and certainly can be considered as being a business getter, and
as having made good in the lamp business.
Since he has been in the Advertising business, X have had
some experience with him as he ran a circularizing advertising
campaign here for the Commonwealth Edison Company. I thought
his work was very successful and would probably be doing
business with him now but it was necessary as a matter of
good policy for me to deal with a local man on my advertising.
Mr. Edgar started in dealing with Mr. Marsh in the
advertising business about the same time that I did or probably
a little earlier and I think he still continues the relation¬
ship. I certainly think Mr. Marsh is a business getter. He
has just as much energy as he used to have years ago,
I am very glad to hear that your battery is looming up so
well.
Your3 sincerely
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Tiik Kimrox Kj.kothio Ii,m:minm
hostos. Hay lath, 1S10.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Mr. Edison, -
X find your letter of the 5th on my desk on my return from
New York this morning. I hardly know what to say to you about Mr.
Marsh. He has been doing advertising work for us for a number of
years and in many respects is the most wonderful man that I have ever
met. We have had one or two emergencies come up where we needed quick
and intelligent action and he has risen to the occasion in Bplendid
shape. He is full of ideas and for work in connection with your new
battery would be full of enthusiasm. At the same time, he needB a
balance wheel and is apt to run away with himself if not properly con¬
trolled. At the moment he is doing nothing for us and I think the same
thing is true in Chicago. Our principal reason for dropping him wae
that, in handling our Boston newspapers, it seemed desirable to have a
local representative, as we were quite severely criticised for bringing
New York talent over here to show us how to do things. I am under the
impression that Mr. Insull went through exactly the same experience and
dropped him for the same reason. This, of course, would not apply to a
national campaign such as I suppose you are contemplating.
Yours very truly,
t;L~
4h?«s4de»t^
cle/h/e.
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Grand total for 1900- 957,863,605 tons; for 19D1 — 972,867,192
tons; for l(o2— 1,061,618,627 tons; for 1$03— 1,165,760,523 tone;
for l(o4— 1,176,604,719; for 1905—1,301,757,869 tone; for 1906—
1,493,033,225 tons; for 1907—1,641,410,776 tons.
But thoBo figures do not represent a single a single
haul only hy wagon over open roads and highways. Many, and
notably numerous varieties of agricultural products demand two,
and even three road hauls between the time of. harvest on the
farm and to the actual consumer.
The Live stock Journal says in an Editorial, -
"There are 31,453,750 horses in the united StateB with the
greatest valuation in the world:
Horses valuation $3,461,822,500.
Cattle, Hogs and Sheep $2,296,028,000
Total Cereal Crops $3,000,000,000
The Home Industry 1b the greatest interest in the world, more
than a billion dollars greater than all our oattle, hogs and
Bheep and iB 461 million dollars more than our oereal crops of
corn, wheat, oats, barley and rye." And all are used as motors.
"The present status of traotion by electric storage
over open roads and highways", continued Mr. Edison, "is thiBt
A one ton truok, carrying one ton of load, averages, in regular me
for 200 machines in Hew York City and itB environB, from 35 to
40 miles per day. The practicable radiuB, however, as demonstrated
by one machine delivering packages In Long Islaid, can be as high
as 63 miles. The ordinary battery requires 7 l/2 hours for
charging. The small truok battery, of 60 cells, weighs 840 lbB.
and has a radius of 45 miles; the next size, 1,200 pounds, is of
the class with the demonstrated radius of 90 miles and does
regularly 63 miles
"And is this the last word in modem power?"
He threw up his hands, in the gesture of a man at
once hopeful and dismayed, exclaiming:
"Oh, if we can only find some way to convert the
energy of coal directly into electriolty, we will enter upon a
wholly now era. V/e get now only 10 per cent of that tremen¬
dous energy; with electricity, we might find ourselvoB utiliz¬
ing 75 per cent. Talk about conservation}
"I have tried it again and again. 1 have my eyeB
open for it always. Somebody will do it. The consequences
are impossible to compute. But, for myself, I cannot now
imagine what form the discovery will take.
“The trouble with us"— and the expression turned rumi¬
native and none too hopeful— "is that we have only five senses.
If we had five more, we would know a lot more. There are prob¬
ably four hundred wireless messages of all kinds going through
this room this minute, and we can imagine nothing at all as to
their nature.
"Discoveries? Why, man, we know as little to-day of
what we need know and may come to know, as the vaudeville
ohimpanzee knows of the expert white man's highest knowledge.
We are just emerging from the animal stage of our racial
existence! 1
[ATTACHMENT]
'"he lead battery in use for so many years has a life
in Electric Truoks where it is oarefully attended to, of one
year, hut whore it does not reooive good attention it is
oaprioious and has a very short life, which has prevontod
the suooess of the pleasure vehicle and the Sleotrio Truck
non-oommeroial, it has one merit over the new battery, it
is cheap but its short life makes it far more expensive in
the end. The new b&ttory is guaranteed to last threo yoars
beoause they have been run three years on test. This is all
that is required to make trucking by electricity as against
the horse highly commercial but I believe these batteries are
going to last three times that period.
I believe that in time a man oan order 100 HorBe Power
hours to run a motor for some particular use end have it carted
to his door and the power furnished extremely cheap.
How about the gasolene truck f
The gasolene truok oan nover solve the truoking problem;
three tons of ooal turned into eleotrloity and put into un
electric truok and costing nine dollars will give more power
than a ton of gasolene costing thirty two dollars. Gasoline
[ATTACHMENT]
is the most expensive of our fuels. Everyone knows who
has had a gasolene oar that the repairs are excessive. Ehis
may be all right for a man's pleasure but when it is applied
to his business it is on a different basiB - gas oars can bo
given high speed, so oan eleotrios, but what value is speed
in congested city 3tr<ietsr: V.hy do we not run our street oars
by gaBoleneV V.'e could save millions in dispensing with the
trolley end power stations, yet all of these millions is
preferred to bo invested to obtain the reliability and low
oost of maintenance of the Eiaotromotor. look at the enor¬
mous complication of a four cylinder gasolene engine as com¬
pared to a simple motor and its chain for driving - nothing
was wanted but the missing link - that is now supplied by
a reliable light weight, long lived storage battery.
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Referring to your memorandum 1651, am sending
you the copy of the lower 7, 'agon for I!ay referred to hy
Hr. Anderson. The advertisement you will find is on Page 1.
'.7. G. Bee.
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For every type of electric vehicle from the
lightest runabout to a five-ton motor truck
— a full day’s work on one charge with
The Edison
Storage Battery
The new Edison Storage Battery is so far beyond any storage batterv
thU PUt the m,arket ^hat £ere is n0 comparison. The use of
this battery on the trucks and delivery wagons of such firms as the
Adams Express Company, R. H. Macy & Company, James A. Hearn
vm?h ny’ u 1 ltken So.n- & ComPany- A. A. Vantine & Company, and
many others, bear out this statement. v
Read these statements
from an Automobile Trade Paper, regarding one of R. H.
: p “ Company’s delivery wagons equipped with an
Edison Storage Battery:
store, ^mbiadnj^nt^ re g u 1 n r^S t n te n ^1 si
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Fri;^e^°rk0fnlerCtri? veh,icles of a11 types, equipped with
Edison Stoi age Batteries, shows a big increase inefficiency
ovei velncles equipped with any. other storage batteries niade^
whether on a long continuous run or a haul broken up by
short trips, quick stops and starts. 1 . y
For ignition of gasoline cars, motor boats and all internal
combustion motors, it is by far the most practical and
economical battery made. ^
It is also adaptable for search lights, head and tail lamps
and incandescent lighting of enclosed cars. 1
Edison Storage Battery Company
102 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.
out on a 'broad non-partisan basis, so that it would
benefit the whole industry— not any one particular
participant.
Under Buch circumstances, I should
like to contribute — so, doubtless, would many of
the Vehiole makerB who buy from various lead
battery manufacturers, as well as the various battery
makers themselveB, provided the plan was in the hands
of a thoroughly non-partisan committee and provided
no particular vehiole or battery waB mentioned in
any way— the whole advertising directed towards
making the public believe in the Electric Wagon and
Carriage business— not, to "boom" any particular
contributor— nor do I believe the expenditure should
be managed or directed by any interested manufacturer.
It seems to me it would be eminently
desirable to have all interested in the industry
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co-operate so as to secure the largest measure of
success. Then it would be on the highest plane— no
axes ground— and the industry as a whole would
receive the entire benefits broadly.
If, on the other hand, it is a partisan
scheme of one clique, it will re-act against the
business, for to the outside public, the whole plan
should appear as a real co-operation effort by all
concerned.
I know that neither you nor other large
Central Station interests would want to put in your
money for any particular man's, or any particular
company's speoial aggrandizement, nor would you want
to "Boost" any special battery or vehicle at the ultimate
expense of the business as a whole.
It is now pretty generally known that I
am in the storage battery business, but there has not
— gg.n invitation extended to me to come in on
the plan. Nevertheless, under the auspices of a non¬
partisan committee of Central Station men thoroughly
committed to favor no particular car or buttery, I
would be willing to contribute §5,000.; and other
interests, such as electric wagon and vehicle makers
who are not now interested in the "co-operative" plan
would doubtless also be willing to contribute.
Yours very truly,
Commonwealth Edison Company,
June 6, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq..,
Orange, N.J.
My Dear Edison:
I have your letter of the 3rd. The only plan I know of
is a scheme to advertise electric vehicles gotten up hy the Electric
Storage Battery Company, which, of course, was intended to boost
their own particular business, and they asked the Commonwealth Edison
Company to subscribe towards their advertising in magazines, and
we, of course, readily did so, and if you had a similar scheme and
asked us to subscribe we would have subscribed $500. to your scheme.
I do not know of any co-operative plan beyond this. I do not think
the idea of a co-operative plan of advertising of a non-pattisan
character in order to stimulate the electric truck and vehicle
businesshas ever been considered, and, therefore, I do not see how
an invitation could, under the circumstances, have been extended
to you to come into the plan. My suggestion would be that the
various storage battery manufacturers and electric vehicle inanufact-
urers get together and work out a general scheme of co-operative
advertising and then ask the Central Station, interests to co-operate
in the matter. I am not interested at all in pushing the Electric
Storage Battery Company’s business. Their scheme struck me as a
very smart one in their own interests, as it will give them, for a
very little money, the control of a very large advertising fund
and we decided to spend $500» on i* just as an evidence of our good
will. I note in your letter you underline the wordB "there has
not been any invitation extended to me to come in on the plan."
Commonwealth Edison Company,
June 6, 19X0.
Do you think for one moment that the Electric Storage Battery
Company would get up a scheme to advertise their own wares and
then ask you to join in the scheme and give you some of the
Benefits which would accrue to them as the result of the exercise
of their grajt matter? Excuse, my -writing you in this v/ay
but your letter rather amuses me. Did Converse D. Marsh dictate
it?
Yours truly
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June 6, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
My dear, Mr. Edison:
Permit me to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of
the 3rd instant in referenoe to the oo-operative plan of adver¬
tising electric vehicles. Our Company has had no relationship
with this plan, nor did we know anything about it until we were
asked to subscribe to a co-operative advertising fund. This
we have done, to the extent of $500.00, simply for the purpose
of helping the cause along. It was our desire that this fund
should be confined simply to advertising all makes of electric
vehicles, leaving the manufacturer and the purchaser to decide
on the battery.
We projected a local organization with the name of
11 The Hew York Electric Vehicle Association”, but after confer¬
ence with various eleotric vehicle manufacturers and others
interested in the industry we have agreed to make this organi¬
zation "The Rational Electric Vehicle Association".
The purpose of the organization is much the same as
that of the National Electric Light Association and the National
Organization of Gasoline Automobile Manufacturers. It is in¬
tended to treat with absolute Impartiality all who are interested
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in this industry; to bring together the manufacturers of vehicles
and batteries, the companies supplying electric current, the sell¬
ing agents and, going a step beyond other organizations, to also
include the users of electric vehicles. This seems to be - and
X hope it also meets your views - co-operative effort in the high¬
est sense. It brings together a groat many interests which are
alike and in common and we think goes a step further, in the di¬
rection of impressing upon the public that the electrio storage
battery and the electric vehicle have now reached a development
point where organization as a distinct branch of the industry 1b
entirely justified.
We are anxious to secure your name as one of the charter
members of the Association, also your presence at the first or¬
ganization meeting in these offices on Wednesday morning, June
8th, at eleven o'clock. Your presence would lend prestige to
the movement that would otherwise be lacking.
We shall be pleased to have any suggestions that you
may care to make.
Trusting that you will find it possible to attend our
meeting on Wednesday, I am.
Yours sinoerely.
nfb/l
Vice President.
Tub Kdisos Ki.kotuio Im.iuiixatixg Co.
Boston. June 6th, 1910.
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ThomaB A. Edison, Esq, ,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Mr. Edison, -
X have read over your letter of the 2nd with a great deal of
interest. Some weeks ago I was asked to go into the scheme to which you
referred hut declined on the general theory that we preferred to spend
our own money, in our own way. We are spending each year from $60,000.
to $75,000. in local newspaper advertising and rather feel that we are
doing our full share toward promoting the electric vehicle.
I think the point which you have made is well taken and that
a national campaign ought to he independent of any particular make of
battery or vehicle. I do not know whether the other large Edison Com¬
panies feel as we do :or not hut as far as our Company is concerned, we
are not interested in the present scheme.
Yours very truly.
cle/h/e.
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE
CENTRAL STATION ASSOCIATION
TREASURER SECRETARY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Boston, Mass., June 6, 1910.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
I teg .to acknowledge receipt of your letter of
June Srd, in reference to the co-operative plan of advertis¬
ing electric trucks and vehicles, and suggesting that this
plan should be nonpartisan, and that it should include all
storage battery makers as well as various vehicle manufac¬
turers.
As a general proposition, I agree with you absolutely
that this advertising should be done upon broad lines and
should not be for the particular benefit of any one company,
and I feel quite sure that the Central Stations of the country
cannot afford to tie themselves up with any particular make or
type of battery or -vehicle.
When this advertising scheme was first brought to
my attention, 1 felt about it exactly as you do, and took steps
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE
CENTRAL STATION ASSOCIATION
to broaden its scope. This idea was not well received by
the promoters of the advertising scheme - The Electric Stor¬
age Battery Company of Philadelphia - but I found, after
talking over the matter at various times, that there was
some difference of opinion among the officers of this
company. it will interest you, I am sure, when I tell you
that 1 am still at work upon the matter and have some 'hope
of securing a change in viewpoint of The Electric Storage
Battery Company. 1 am writing them again today and as soon
as I hear from them definitely 1 will communicate with you
further.
Thanking you for calling it to. my attention, and
appreciating your interest in the matter, 1 beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
President^'"'^,
’vhb/adp
The Converse D. Marsh Company
15 SPRUCE STREET, NEW YORK
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Mr. Edison,
Orange, N. j,
Mr. Edison:
iw Yprk, 7, 19^
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I enclose a letter I have written
to the Lansden Wagon Co.. 1]
Will you please 0. K. it and send it
to them? -
They will send at least two letters to
the Central Stations and consequently should have
twelve thousand letter heads on hand.
CDK-AIE.
Very truly youBs,
Htt CONVERSE D. MARSH
The Converse D. Marsh Company
15 SPRUCE STREET, NEW YORK
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July 7, 1910.
Lansden Wagon Co.,
Newark, N. J.
Gentlemen:
‘•e will shortly issue a letter on your
letter head to the Central Staions.
You ought to have at least twelve thousand
letter heads on hand so that we will not he delayed
in getting out the letters.
Will you kindly attend to this?
Very truly yours,
THE CONVERSE D. KARSH COMPANY.
CDM-AXE.
July l!5th,19
Messrs. Dyer, Thf-Hpn & ffnTirr-
On the way up from Atlantic City last Friday morning the
statement was ma.de hy one or two of you that we ought to have
a new and. different Storage Battery Catalogue. It is quite
lilrely that a new catalog must be printed in the near future,
and I would lijce to find out wherein you thirdc the present
catalogue does not cover the ground. In what respect should
it be changed?
i/o .d3VI3DHfl \
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V .fl'iYU J XHAHH
It is not necessary to go into details, but give me, in a
general way, what you have in mind.
L.C.UcCHZSHEY.
July 14, 1910.
bChesney
Replying to your memorandum of the 13th inst.
I had intended bringing this matter up, because as a result of
my last trip through the Y/est I had made up my mind that our
present storage battery catalogue would have to bo changed.
It is r '.ally nothing more than a sort of preliminary announce¬
ment regarding the battery. X think all references to manufao-
ture and all of the outs relating to the plant should be
omitted and the catalogue should be limited to the battery
itself. In other words, there should be very good outs, show¬
ing the battery and its elements, the descriptive matter to
tell just what the battery Ji's and indioate the strong points.
There should also be curves and data showing its efficiency
and life. Also,
L comparative statement showing the advant¬
ages of the Edison battery over the lend battery. Also, in
parallel columns, a statement showing what has to be done to
tahe oare of the lead battery and the same data relating to
the Edison battery, indicating how much easier it is to
handle the iSdison battery#
There might also be included a list of the principal
users of the Edison battery.
In other wordB, the catalogue ought to very fully
describe the battery and nothing need be said about the size
of our plant, nor the proceBB of making the batteries.
F. L. D.
HjD/ARxC.
[FROM CONVERSE
Jkly 25, 1910.
Prank L. Dyer, Esq.,
Vice President,
I’dlGon Storage Battery Company,
Orange, Mow Jersey.
Lly Dear Hr. Dyer:
Answering yours of the 22nd:
iaaodiatoly I saw that you objoctod to ay. debating with
Hr. Blizzard- tho nori to of tho Edison and Exido Batteries, I dropped
tho matter completely until wo had an opportunity for conference.
I assumed no foolish position. You may ronembor that I
told you over tho telephone that when the suggestion was mad© that
I tako part in a controversy with Hr. Blizzard, I not the suggestion
by saying that if ho did I was not up on the technical dotalls and
expected to be allowed the privilege of having on Edison Battery
Engineer with mo.
I am circulating gonorally and I hope I am also stirring
up somo interest.
You are correct: tho work I am doing comes under tho
contract made, on June 7th. Shore is no extra charge for any of my
Mow York, in
personal work so long as it does not call no out of tow:-.
whioh 1g included my visits to Orange.
Yours very truly.
July 29th, 1910
X , loave
with Calldns
of each week
wo ok.
“w u wo weoics 1 vacation. * _ _
& Holden to send a man out on Monday or Tuesday"
to talk to you about the copy for the following
They will alao see that the proofs are submitted ancl every
tisingatt°lrti0n eiV0U that is noossauJy to carry out this adver-
Should you want anything in my department during m
tato3 oara of it for you. He is thorough-
I'ith th0 work of the department , and can continue
anything that you may have discussed with me.
L.O.McChesney.
Thig~l«t'tlr was written and given to
- Mr.Bac. Augieth. 1910/ - -
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Electricity ^
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do in the wa.v. of chnrfeine automobile /bn.i.J*rr
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and /. C. Jin single phss
service. ’-Vhile we uo not charge automobile batteries except for
the sparking batteries we be'iie.e we could do so. In case your
T'oute would lay through here wc would nak that' you kindly advise
us just what would be 'necessary Tor us to have in connection with
our D.C. current to charge your batteries and we would try and
be ready for you.
In connection with this wish to say thnt inasmuch nS t* 1 s
trip a noears to be for the benefit of the electrics! industry we
will be pleased to extend the courtesies of our firm and the use
of our. apparatus and to advise that we are at the end of thirty
four mile of excellent state road from Buffalo and half way between
Buffalo and Jamestown.
In case your trip should be through Gowanda we would be
pleased to co-operate with you in any way in making the trio a
success through here and would arrange to have several -'ho are
interested in the battery,, see it.
.Vain assuring you of our earnest desire to aid you in any
way wo can, we beg to remain.
Yours very truly,
U.LCTP.IC COMPANY.
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V.c inclose a small b oklct “ THL STORY C» A. CREEK’* and
would appreciate very much an exrressfrom you In reran-1 to it.
Pennsylvania Packet, 1771: Daily Advertiser, 1784
United States Gazette, 1789: The oldest Daily
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Mgr. .New Edison Storage Battery Co,
/121 Lakeside Ave ,
X Orange, IT. J.
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I notice ,a "stunt" you are pulling off around New
York to promote the New Edison Storage Battery. This i's
unique and interesting and i want to compliment you on the
idea. I think if you would use Philadelphia for the basis
of a similar operation it would go a long ways towards '
promoting more interest in the electric automobile in this
territory. \
It has been suggested to me by local electric I
people that the North American hold an electric pleasure !
reliability run between Philadelphia and Atlantic City f
and return, sometime in October. I am to-day writing the
various manufacturers of electrics to get their views on this
suDject. \
I am sending you herewith a couple of papers
showing you the success we made with our recent Motor
Truck Reliability Contest.
.... This electric run will be held under the same
conditions and would unquestionably feo a long way in in-
nrHnmncT ’"'“iBt in electrical vehicles in and around
*r°rth American stands pre-eminent in the
automobile field, here, and is naturally the logical paper
to undertake a proposition of this kind P P
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October 4th, 1910.
Hr. Carl Horhert,
44 Trinity Place,
How Roc ho lie , H.Y.
I.!y aear Ur. Herbert
Your favor of September 22nd
was auly roooivoa an! 1 have aelayed answering the
some until I oould bring up the matter to Hr. Edison.
I have not boon ablo, however , to interest him in the
propoaition. At tho present timo v/e are being litorally
swamped with orders for tho Edison Battery and are get¬
ting farther and farher behind in our deliveries. Mr.
Edison l'oels that undor these clrcumstancos it would be
a rather bad policy for us to start out on any now
publicity scheme which might result in further embarr¬
assment. He feols that all of our efforts should be ex¬
pended in providing for incroaso of output, in order to
take oaro of the businoss that v/e have so far beon ablo
to stir up. I am really sincerely sorry not to bo ablo
to writo you a moro favorable letter, but I have dono
all that I can to interest Mr. Edison in tho proposition.
, Yours very truly,
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each with its crew of two men and some throe hundred pounds of
extra .Weight in the shape of clothing, extra tools and tires
started from Hew York on September 17th and successfully complet¬
ed "Ideal Tour". . ..< {-
The two cars -feeekythe "Tour" in opposite directions meet¬
ing at the Mount Washington House, Brett on Woods, where it was
decided an attempt should be made to climb Mount Washington.
A detour of some foyrty fivo miles was necessary to reach
Glen, the start of the wagon road. This of necessity broke into
the original plan of having the cars follow the regular gasoline
car schedule as set forth in the "Ideal Tour".
Mount Washington rises 6229 feet into the air and the
grades of the eight mile wagon road vary from the 14$ average
to a maximum of 27$.
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That a small Electric equipped with merely a 2 1/2 H motor
and its storage battery should make this climb , which taxes to the
limit the high powered gas and steam cars, was a revelation to all
who wi tn ess ed
Seven ^Hhe eight mile climb was accomplished the last
mile being made impossible by blinding rains and terrific winds.
Along the route it was found that nearly every Electric
Light Station with but very small alterations could recharge the
ITo serious trouble was experienced throughout the entire
trip. A motor, heavily overloaded on the mountain climb, melted a.
little solder on the .wire connections,* a bad spot in the road
broke a forward spring,* both repairs were made on the road with
but slight delay.
*™ce.
Tire troubles were rather.below the average experienced
on such a trip. '
Practically the trip with the Electrics was a’S" readily
carried out as with the gas cars, proving that the fllewABattery
will drive any kind of a vehicle over any road that a gas car
can negotiate, and make the usual mileage that is customary in
long family tours. r ,
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The two .Electrics of "Bailey" and "Detroit" manufacture
each with its, crew of two men and some three hundred pounds of
9:xtra weight in the shape of clothing extra tools and tires
started from Nov/ York City on September 17th and successfully
completed the above "Ideal Tour".
The tv/o cars took the "Tour" in opposite directions meeting
at the Mount Washington House, Bretton V.'oods, where it v/as decided
an attempt should be made to climb Mount Washington.
A detour of some fourty five miles v/as necessary to reach
Glen, the start of the v/agon road. This of necessity broke into
the original plan of having the cars follow the rerular gasoline
car schedule as set forth in the "Ideal Tour".
Mount Washington rises 6229 feet into the air and the
gradeB of the eight mile v/agon road vary from the 14?o average
to a maximum of 27$T
That a small Electric equipped v/ith merely a 2 l/2 H motor
and its storage battery should make this climb which taxes to the
limit the high pov/ered gas and steam cars, v/as a revelation to all
who v/itnessed.
Seven of mile climb was accomplished the last
mile being made impossible by blinding rains and terrific winds.
Along the x'oute it
Light Station with but verj
batteries.
vas found that nearly every Electric
small alterations could recharge the
No serious trouble v/as experienced throughout the entire
trip. A motor heavily overloaded on the mountain climb melted a
little solder on the wire connections, a bad soot in the road
broke a forward spring, both repairs were made' on the road with
but slight delay.
ire rather below the average experienced
Practically the trip with the Electrics was readily
carried out as with the gas cars, proving that the new battery
will drive any kind of a vehicle over any road that a gaB car
can negotiate, and make the usual mileage that is customary in
family tours.
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£dison il uctromobilos make 1000 mile
"Ideal Tour0 and
climb Mount Washington.
The two "Hlectromoblluc" equipped with Mi'. .ScU. son's
new storage buttery have completed their thousand mile en¬
durance run over the well known "Ideal Tour", not only
thin but ns a side issue they mace seven of the eight mile
climb up Mount Vashington, being prevented from contin¬
uing: to the vary top by rain, hail, and heavy winds.
The machines of "Bailey and "Potx-oit" typos with
their crown of two men each top-ether with bap rape and
necessary touring equippment of tools and tiros, loft
tfww York City Saturday sept. 17th, and arrived at Waterbury
thoir first resting place the same night in pood form. One
car taking the shore road and the other the inland route
via Biarcliff.
After charging their batteries at Vatt-rbury Saturday
night the curs parted, the Bailey making her next stopping
place at PittsfiOd Mass, while the Detroit proceeded to
Boston by way of Hartford, Springfield and Vo rooster.
Tho third night saw the little Bailey at Manchester,
Vt. where she was confronted with ono of the extreme tests
of the trip in the shape of the Peru Mountain with its rough
roads and heavy grades.
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The owners of large gasoline care laughed at the
little; cur when her erov told what they were about to
attempt. Baying that it was an impossible feat to 'accomplish.
Nevertheless, they went over in fine shape and arrived in
Springfield the next evening. A short delay was experienced
horo by luck of water power at the .Qoctrlc Lighting station.
In the meantime the Detroit Car was spinning along
the Muss, and Hoino coast, from Boston through Lynn to Ports¬
mouth on to Portland and Poland Springs. Here as in Manchester
with the Bull ey, the car, stopped at the rummer Hotel and
ar roused great interest. The owners of high powered gas cars
ssdd they wore up against it cn the question of roads and grades
Undoubted both crews kept on their respective ways, the
"Bailey" going over through Clairmont, 77. H. , Newport, up past
Sunapou Luke and. made her night stop at Plymouth to again re¬
charge.
The Detroit at this time was plowing through heavy sand
from Poland Springs enroute to Bretton Woods to gain which aha
had the climb through Crawford Notch and over porga War* Hill
tho Waterloo of many a big car.
Both met at Mount Washington Hotel Bratton Woods, a
trifle behind the regular schedule, but duo solely to delays
in charging. As one must realize, on this maiden trip through
these parts the electro being practically an unknown type,
all conveniences were not at hand for recharging.
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At Bratton Woods it was decided to Tiros* into tha
original schedule and try tho climb of nil climbs, that of
up the wagon road to the numit of Mount Washington.
The- earn acre therefore taken to Jackson the nearest
charging point to "Thu Mountain" recharged and escorted to
Olen the buses of the actual climb , duo to unavoidable del uy a
and heavy weather it uao necessary to spend the night ut the
"Half v/ay House " unci continue the climb next morning.
Imagine the unusual sight of the two little electrics
uuch with its i. l/n K, P. motor pulling their ton load of car
ant' cfeuippment up the eight miles cf It# grads with hors and
there spots of EO f> me over, the maxim un being 27$.
Vmtsy climbing nix the ubum! foot into the air, the
clouds, bellowing beneath one the •-•ntire time, «vat banks,
like ocean breakers continually roiling in from every direction,
the effect bus wired in the extreme.
fo much interest was arrowed at Brotton Woods that
Hr. Anderson, Manager of Mount Washington kept in touch with
the fhasnit by 'phone and posted bulletins for hie guests.
The rettu'n through tho blinding rain and v/ind storm
that swept the mountain and made the rood almost undurable,
will be a trip never to be forgotten by the drivers.
Idle questioners remarked "I thought you said the cars
would go over a hundred miles in one charge? "Yes, they do"
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A horse can rim say a mile in two minutes on the fiat,
hut he can't snake that pho wing on a mountain side, hi s stored
up energy in not sufficient. Just so v.i th the battery, the
power is there for reasonable use hut when drawn on in steady
escoosu, necessarily cuts down the sill ago, though in no cay
effecting thr» battery itself.
It cocas incredible that the power of gtrraao, coal
oan be changed to an invinable force capable of being stared
in the little steal cars of this battery to bo drawl on at will.
'flic mountain climb being concluded the curs again pre¬
cluded on their says, the Bailey for Poland r.pringe, Portland, V
Portsmouth TIewbury, h r "birth-place", Boston and finally
back to 17 ew York by way of Worcester Pprinrfleld and Hartford.
Thu Detroit returned to Pro t ton Rhode recharged and
made her way past the old Han of the* 11 sun tain, thro wh the
well known Franconia ”otch, to Plymouth. Prom Plymouth down
past nanapoc to Springfield, VI. over the mountains to Man¬
chester thmi Pittsfield, tonox, Great Barrington, Canaan
T/atorbury and finally Hew York City.
Peru cannot describe tho beauties of this thousand
miles, through volleyi* and over mountains past beautiful
lakes and along rivers, the fall snap in the sir and the
ever changing foliage to attract their eye.
Superintendents and Managers* of tho Electric tight
Plants placed every convenience at hand at tho disposal of
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the erwwa ami in hundredo of uayr. showed their loyr«l ty to
the "Old ton" as Mr. Sdieon io affectionately known by his
The trip o«e cun safely ray is a v roly a fori-.- runner
of creator achievements the flectroaobilo is bound to stake.
Hmv Mr si «ti>r the gacvflino car is; always more or leue
noiuay "cwelly" and &e chu gro wc old r inclined to show a
ffrtai deal of vibration, rot so with the little Electric,
no ci’snkinR, no odor or neicc, no thrashing of a rccipro eating
enrino, Merely the nt study votary piai of her little Motor
which, Email itft it ao-.ta8, dots', the work in hand.
This trip alone, not to men tier m.Jty others, ^scu
to prove that the ion?: talked of helicon Battery is no longer
a myth but an accomplished fact, not to he scoffed at but
to be regarded with wav and serious in ter out.
Commonwealth Edison Company,
October 2 <5, 1910,
Thoms A. Edison, Esq.,
C/o Edison’s Laboratory,
Orange , lf.j.
lly Dear Edison:
X am sending you herewith in this same
envelope a copy of the "Edison Round Table" a little
house organ issued by the Commonwealth Edison Branch
of the national Electric Light Association. I have been
especially asked by the writer of the ballad on
Bi -Polar machines to draw your attention to page 98. I
think it will recall some pleasant memories so I would
advise you to read it. Just send me a pencil memorandum
in reply.
Yours sincerely
P.S. Gorton happens to be in the office while I am
dictating this and he sends his best regards to you.
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The Best Electric Car in
I the 'World— Bar None
\yHY do we import our axles from the cele--
’ brated Krupp Gun Foundry of Berlin? Because
sonic of the worst accidents • happen froth broken axles
and we don’t propose that anything; of the kind shall
happen to a Woods Electric. Krupp makes the finest
steel in the world. In an ordinary piece of steel, such as
axles arc made from in this country, •constant vibration
crystallizes the axle and eventually it breaks. Ours don’t
break. Is that clear? You see we know precisely what
we are doing. We are taking no chances on any detail
of this car. It’s got to he the best inside and out. That
minimizes our responsibilities.
f Why do we use Exide batteries ? Because
thus far they have proved themselves the best batteries in
the world. If any other batteries were better, we’d use
them. Even now, some of you want Edison batteries and
we .furnish them where asked. But it’s only to please
you — not that we consider Edison batteries as good.
When they have hcen proved' "to be as good as Exide
we’ll use as many of them. When they arc proved to be
better we will abandon the Exide entirely. . We are not
tied, arbitrarily to anybody or anything. Tradition and
precedent are worth nothing- in our estimation. What
we want is the best of everything, and- idle .sentiment is
not going to change our ways.
'v-’Wc import the steel from which our springs are
made from Krupp. That explains, their durability and
resiliency. And you know, if you know anything at all
about the different makes of electric cars, that the Woods
rides like a hannnock, while other cars bump and jolt your
liver and your lights. Think, and ask questions. Don’t
buy oh mere appearance — don’t take anything for granted.
December 2nd, 1910
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spf°i'al advertisement being run to earn this rate
have asked him to submit it to you for approval.
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lTot to be given away.
Talking pointa to be studied, by salesmen in talking Edison
batteries as compared with lead. These criticisms of Edison
batteries were sent out by our competitors. Mr. Edison has tried
to answer them honestly.
EXTRACTS 'FROM A LEAD MATTERY MAH TO ORE OE HIS ACrENTS
WITH COMMENTS BY MR. EDISON.
I have your favor of May 1st, with enclosed advertisement and
note that you are a little bit worried in recard 'to the Edison
battery and the advertising of the Detroit Electric. The Edison
battery is not worrying us at, all at the present time and I will
endeavor to explain why.
COMPARISON OE CAPACITY AND WEIGHT.
Point One— On the enclosed sheet you will find figures showing a
comparison between a standard "JSxide" battery and an Edison type
A-G battery of the same watt hour or horse-power rating. These
figures were obtained, .ff-om actual test and arc absolutely reliable. "
The catalogue rat id capacity of the aside was used and note the
increased capacity which can always be obtained after the battery
3 r. been in service a month or two , while the actual capacity of
tne Edison battery and not its rated capacity was used,' this
giving it the advantage.
Answer to Point One - Th?re are several false statements in this
first paragraph , "the Edison gives 11610 watts at its rated ca¬
pacity for 43 cells." They state this is its actual capacity.
The actual capacity of the Edison is 14706 watts.
COMPARISON OE RAPACITY AND SPACE OCCUPIED
Point Two — You will note than t.-te space required is practically
ire same for oi ■ uer i.attery, but that the Edison battery has a
decided advantvg > in weight. The watt hour efficiency is the ratio
of the watt boor out— put divided by .the watt hours required to
charge, and, fli'-r.Tforu. gives the ratio of your customers current
bill for either type of battery, as ho has to pay for current on
ibe watt noi.v basis. You will note a decided advantage in favor
of the "Exltfe" battery in toe cost of current for chargeing.
Answer to Point Two - This advantage is based on a size and volt¬
age of a battery that con'd not be used in the Anderson carriage,
and, if it, could be use.', would nave a very much less commercial
efficiency than the Edison, because of the current required to
haul the extra weight.
Eor the same powei
same available power t!
an a considerable port:
battery must be wasted
the Edison takes up less space. Eor the
Edison takes up vary much less space,
i of the power stored up in a Lead
' pull its extra weight".
COMPARISON OP WATER REQUIRED TO REPLENISH,
Point Rive - After every second discharge, the Edison battery requires
filling with absolutely pure water. Hot only must distilled water
be used, but distilled water which has not been exposed to the air.
Answer to Point Eive - The Edison battery takes more water, but the
reason for this is, that it :is generally overcharged by the public,
beoause they know no harm is done. Whereas the Lead battery will not
stand overcharging, extensively, hence it must be watched , that it is
not so overcharged, which explains why they use less water.
The recommending of tha use of distilled water of the highest
purity by the Edison Company is in the interest of the public, to
insure the longest possible life. An Edison battery filled with
drinking water will outlast several lead batteries.
COMPARISON OP DELETERIOUS EEEECTS OP ELECTROLYTE
Point Six - The alkaline electrolyte used in the Edison battery is much
more destructive than is the acid electrolyte used in the Exile
oell.
Answer to point Six - It is notorious that the Sulphuric Acid spray from
a Lead battery attacks the iron work of all vehicles very seriously,
and that has been a great complaint from 'truck owners. The parts are
not attached by anything from an Edison mattery.
Point Seven — Edison cells are hermetically sealed and if any trouble
develop, the battery must be snipped back to the Edison Company for
repairs.
Answer to Point Seven - This a great advantage. An owner of' an
electric, finding a cell odad, (which will be seldom) can leave it
in without any loss of mileage, as the battery has a great surplus
capacity. Send, for another cell nnd. put it in himself without any
experiment, and return the old cell for investigation. If this
accurs with a Lead cell he will have to send for an expert, spends
some time in cutting out washing, or fixing the cell and then the
man receives a bill, much larger than in the case of the Edison
cell.
Point Eight -- A complete renewal of the electrolyte in the Edison
battery is periodically necessary and this renewal would probably
be equal to the cost of removing the sediment from an "Exide"
battery.
Answer to Point Eight - Edison electrolyte! is renewed onoo for all after
period of run:: months to one yea'', whereas the electrolyte of a Lead
battery has to bo attended to continuously by exports with Hy¬
drometers •
COMPARATIVE i'LIEE.
P.oint Kin':' To offset its Mg‘a cos't an.rl increase coot for charging
current due to its ine f t'icer.cy , the: i i fe of the Edison battery'Vai -t
he several times longer than that erf the Lead battery to "make it a
commercial competitor. There. x.s nothing; to show that this is tbs'
case, even if the battery ir; given the greatest precaution)!.! care
necessary to keep it in first class' condition.
Answer to Point Kino - There is no comparison possible hern. Th- L-ad
battery, is a running expanse, whereas the Edison battery is- an 'in¬
vestment and lasts for years. Siftajjy & Co. , of New York are pretty
reliable people. They have had Edison batteries of the experimental
or first type, which Edison himself claimed were not good end were
sold as a favor. Yet Tiffany & Co., have bear, running these old
batteries for four years and some are running yet. ASK THEM,
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Point Ten - This comparison being based upon cells of standard "Txide"
type is even more favorable to 'he Edison battery than it would be
were the comparison based upon cells of the "Hycap" type.
Answer o Point Ten - The "Hycap" type is an absurdity. If it was better
why was it not used for a comparison?
Point Eleven -To sum the entire matter up in a f-w words, the public has
b— -n educated to believe that anything bearing the name "Edison" mus-
r.eoensarily be absolutely perfection, while as a matter of fact, if th
Edison battery possesses any great advantage over the lead plate
battery, these advantages have not yet been demonstrated and a careful
buyer would not risk his money in an experiment. It is true that
increased mileage can be obtained from the Edison battery which weighs
as much as the standard lead plate battery, occupies seventy-five
percent. (75 %) More spac -• and costs over three times as much. Th-
cost of charging this battery would be much in excess of the cost of
charging a lead plate battery and the mileage now obtainable from a
lead plate battery is greatly in excess of any ordinary demand for
one days run of the vehicle.
Answer to Point, Eleven - Edison never vet gave the public a gold brick
or permitted crooked talk by his representatives, and he is getting
too old to change his methods of doing business.
THI'-J COMPARISON WAS RElJ'1 OU'l' BY A COMPETITIVE LEAD BVi’TJSRY
COM PASTY TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. HEAD &R. EO/ISON" S COMPARISON VERY CAR'**1
POLLY. WE DO HOT HAVE TO MAKE AiiY ' MISBlVlTEMEHTS REGARDING EDISOR PATTER 1
BATTERY KCXDE EDI HON
Watt hour output 40 cells - 11 M. V. Standard 43 o-lls
at 5 hour rate ------ 11600 11610
Weight - - - - 1400 pounds 817 pounds
Space required - — • - - - 17800 ou. in. 18000 ou. in.
Watt hour efficiency - 72.5# 49. 5# f
Wat" hours required
to charge - 18800 26200
Internal resistance
of Battery - .07 ohms. .129 ohms.
Per cent in loss in
Per cent in loss in
voltage due to internal resistance
at five hour rate -
- - 2.61#
11.6#
P-r cent in loss in
voltage due to internal
resistance at 2-1/2 times
five hour rate - -
- - 6.53#
29#
Pirst cost
1
2-2/3
Cost of charging
1
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VJI'HI THE
S’DIBOU STORAGE BATTERY
In the early flays of the automobile, tho three
available sources of motive power - gusolino, ctoam and
olcotricity - started on practically an oven footing, ■
iiach typo had its own ardent advocates. Even in raoec,
hotli road end track, tho three classes were found sido by
side, at least at tho sido. In the comparatively fow
years of development the gasolene oar has leaped forward
at such an astonishing rate of progress that at tho pre¬
sent time its manufacture comprises one of the groat in-
diotries of the world. The steam oar is being slowly but
surely pressed into oblivion, and tho electric finds it¬
self today occupying two small fieldB of usefulness , first,
as a commercial truck, and, socond, as a town car, suitable
for ladies and invalids to drive, but in the eyes of the
public, of strictly limited utility. Then the prosent
erase for undue and dangerous speeds oomo to on end either
by killing off the reckless drivers, or by the euporior
attraction of flying machinos to produce the necessary
excitement; and when American business mon will have the
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moral courage to really fine out what a largo gas car
costs them to run, the electric automobile will corao
into its own. Hat i oriel men 7/ill soe that it possossos
ell the attributes of a successful family oar, one that
ccn be depended upon for trips of a hundred miles at
moderate speed, requiring no hired chauffeur to run,
having no smells nor vibration, noisclosr; and with a
minimum wear on tires, fifth suah a car a man may spend
a sensible end pro itr.blo day with hie family, three or
four hours in the morning, a stdp for lunoh, and on
equal tlmo in the afternoon - a sufficiently long trip
to -’re tty wo 11 tire out the average /meric an woman.
And tho owner, instead of keeping hie eyes gluoft on the
road and reaching home in a condition of nervous ex¬
haustion , may bo surprised to find that America;: posgod-
cos the finest scenery in the world, and that his norvos
are capable of a roal relaxation.
To convince himself that tho electric can bo
effectively usoa as a family oar, Air. Kdison planned
and carried into execution a sories of one day trips
co vo ring tho country around and about ilow York Oity.
Attention was givon to making thoso trips interesting.
Tho routes erabraood many of tho suburban towns of ilow
Jorooy, long Island, and Staten Island. In laying out
thoso runs, the ordinary good automobile routoc were
were chosen irrespective of grades; the idea being
to cover the some roads that would naturally ho used by
any other typo of vehicle.. Each trip called for tho
accomplishment of from 05 to 100 miles to bo made on a
single oharge of the battery. In every case, after the
return ovor tho scheduled route; the vehicle was run to
a standstill to entirely exhaust tho battery and deter¬
mine the excess mileage still retained in the oar, there¬
by indicating tho safe margin after eaoh trip. A garage
was selected on 40th Street - approximately the centre
of IIow York City - and starts and finishes wore made at
this point, the excess mileago being run off on Eifth
Avenue, Central Park V/ost and othor nearby thoroughfares,
in order that, as tho oars approached their limit, ad¬
verse comment might be aQoidod. Chose day tours were
open to any manufacturer who was in position to use the
Edison battery. She S. E. Bailey Company of Amesbury,
Mass, and tho Anderson Carriage Company of Detroit,
ilioh. , wore the first to entor, and later tho Baker Com¬
pany of ci?Y$iand and tho Babcock Company of Buffalo,
eaoh entered a oar (Slide ITo. 1 and Slide Uo. 2); The~
battery equipment of the Bailey, Baker and Detroit oars
is 40 oells, each of the Edison A-6 type* the normal
oharging rato of which is 46 amperes , at 76 volts for
7-1/2 hours. Tho Baboook equipment oonsistB of 60
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sA'Jaft
Baku, Plot ,
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A-4 go Ho | requiring naturally a higher charging volt¬
age, hut showing a somewhat better watt hour efficiency,
liaoh car oarriod two passengers, a driver furnished by
the manufacturer and an observer, one of the Kdison
laboratory assistants whoso duty it was to note end
record road conditions, grades and roadings of the ado-
meter, volt-motor and amporo-metor. She cars wero weigh¬
ed with their load, showing 2357 pounds for the Bailey
and 2448 pounds for the Detroit. Tho Baker and Babcock
cars were onto rod so recently that tost runs have not as
yet boon made with thorn, but both of their manufacturers
have made numerous runs that havo boen highly satisfac¬
tory. Strict oare was taken that the pressure in tires
should remain constant, so as to obtain true odometor
roadings; and all tire troubles wore carefully notod.
In order that you may exactly appreciate what
those runs wero that wore taken by the Bailoy and Detroit
cars, I will have thrown on the scroon maps showing a
nurabor of tho actual trips. Perhaps somo of you have
boon over those very roads, and if so, you will appreciate
the remarkable performances that wore made by those two
oarB. (Slide Ho. 3) ’ -
She first rim was made by the Detroit. Starting
from Hew York at 7.28 a.m. , the car proceeded to South
Perry to 3t. George, Staten Island, thence by way of tho
Richmond Tumpiko and Old Stone Road through Sottonvillo,
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■back over the Amboy road through liiohmond to the Klica-
bethport Perry. Prom illiaabothport the route continued
through liaabeth, thence by way of Ilorrio Avonuo to
Union, thence by Irvington Avonue to Orange, thonoo through
Bloomfield to Uaekensaok; from there to Port loo and Un¬
dercliff, acre oss the Perry at 130th Street, down Eivorsido
Drive to the starting point which was roaohed at 5.02
p.m. Peking out the time for lunch and delays at the
three ferries, the running time was 6 hours and 58 minutos,
tho distance being 84 miles, giving on average spood of
12.07 miles per hour. Phis is certainly a fair average
when wo oonsidor the numerous stretches of freshly tarr-
od roads that v.rere encountered and tho fact that on tho
northern portion of the run, towards its end, the grades
were quite Btiff , often as high as 9$. Kxoesc mileage
being run off in Dew York showed a safety surplus of 18
miles, making a total of 102 miles for tho day on a sin¬
gle ohargo.
(Slide Do. 4) -
Phe second run, the map of whioh is shown on
the soreen, was made with the Bailoy oar, starting from
40th Street to the 23d Street Perry, thonoo to Jersey
City. Prom there tho car proceeded across the moadowB,
the road at that time being under oonBtruotion end in
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taa condition; through Hewark' to Montclair, up tho
Valloy Road to Great Hotoh, ovor some ozeoodingly stiff
grades to --ittlc Falls, along tlio fompton fumpikc to
.Mountain View and Porapton. Shis, an any one who has been
ovor this section of the country Jmows, is a hoautiful
run, affording occasional views of tho Baacaic River
winding through lt3 tunnel of ovor-hanging treos. She
route continued to Pompton River and late and tho quaint,
now almost unusea, Morris Canal; tlicnee to Butler and
return, thenoe with some stiff grades over rreoknoos
Mountain to Halodon, through Areola to Haokcnsaek to
Fort Iso and Unaeroliff, ferry eoroso. tho Hudson, and
Riverside Drive to the starting point. 2ho total mile¬
age was 76 miles, and the time, omitting otops, was 6
hows and 6 minutes, giving an avorage spend of 13.19
miles per hour, iixcoss railoago being ran off in Hew
York, showed a surplus of 40 milos, making a total for
tho any of 116 miles, on a single charge. Some parts
of this particular run may be spoken of as almost mount¬
ainous grades of 10# being frequently mot.
I shall not take the time to describe in
detail the other runs made by these oars, but will show
some of tho routes on the soreon. In every oase you will
admit that the results would seem torindioato that the
olectrio oar is hy no moans limited to town use.
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311 ao So. 5 - 122-1/4 miles, 12.00 per hour
-Ho. 6 - 139-1/ 2 Miles , 13.71 per hour
7 - 113 Julies, 12*47 pc** hour <
1 o &©raonstrcte tlie dependability and rolia-
bllity of a single battery charge, the Detroit driver
v/as facetiously given the role of a sick woman (his narao
■.7no Darling) under the doctor's orders to spend at least
an hour end a half per day for a week in her Blectrio
in Central Dark, hut unfortunately v/hose oredlt at tho
garage was low, so that she was able to pay for only a
single 7-1/2 hours charge at tho normal rate. In this
test no water was given the batteries, and for the
cevon days tho charging socket was sealed, for seven
successive days from 1-1/2 to 2 hours each day tho car
v/aG run in tho Park, and showed at the end of that time
an odomoter reading of 120 miles at on average speed of
12,32 miles per hour. She cost of the current consumed
was 51.42 or 21 cents per day for a triflo ovor 18
miles.
Another interesting was in connection with
Port Goorge Hill, the ITooea of all "hill olimbors" In
and around Hew York; the Bailey oar was given the task
of finding out how many times eho couia make the ascent.
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She hill is 8138 feat in length, and, ao cording to the
Engineering Department of Dew York, the grado is 11$,
the road hod being a fair granite blook. She car was
started from a standstill at the foot of the grade each
time ana made 81 successive trips up the hill, on a
single charge of the battery. 2 his particular performance
means a climb of almost one mile into the air in 8 miles,
to say nothing of coming up grade for 9 miles from tho
garage to roach the Hill. Surely a very commendable
exploit for a type of car, that a misguided public be¬
lieves is limited to afternoon calls, shopping trips and
tho like. It was next thought feasible to take a weeks
tour, representing perhaps the maximum loisurc a buoy
man might bo able to seouro and which he might desire to
pass in a ploasant, profitable and economical way. Af¬
ter a little correspondence regarding charging stations
in Pennsylvania, it was decided to circle the State of
Mow Jersey, making night charging stopB at Asbuiy Park,
Atlantio City, Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Port Jervis
and Hewburg. She roads in Dew Jersey wore in good shape,
but those in Pennsylvania were bad, and the grades wore
heavy and full of short watorbreaks. Tho daily runs by
tho two cars, talcing the roaas by ana large as they came,
varied betwoon a minimum of 54 miles, to a maximum of
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04 mile 8, in every ease on a single chargo. Ehe total
mileage was 480. Eho success oncountorod on this par¬
ticular trip was so pronounced, that it was then dociaca
to attempt the "Ideal Sour" of approximately 1000 railos,
a route familiar to many automobilists. Elio Ideal Eour
takes in roads along tho long Island Sound, through
the Housatonic Volloy into the Borkshiros , into Vermont,
over Peru fountains to the Connecticut Valley, into llow
Hampshire pest lake Sunapoe, thonoo to tho iiaino Coast,
down through Boston and return to How York.
Slide Ho. 8 -
Slide No. 9
Ehe Bailey and Detroit cars, with their orowB of two
raon eaoh, equipped with baggage and nooessary touring
outfit of tools and tires, left llow York City on Satur¬
day, September 17th last, and arrived at Y/aterbury, Conn,
their first stopping place, the same night, both in
good form, one ear having token tho Hudson River route
and tho other along tho Sound.
Slide Ho. 10 - Hap of Idoal Eour. -
After recharging their battories at Y/atorbury on Saturday
night, the oars partod, the Bailey making her next stop
at Elttsfield, Uass. , and the Detroit proceeding to
Boston by way of Hartford, Springfiold ana Y/oroestor.
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She third night saw the Bailey ear at Manchester, Ver¬
mont, whore she was confronted hy one of the extreme
tests of the trip - the passage over Bora Mountain
with its rough roads and heavy grades, Sho owners of
large gasolene oars laughed at tho Bailey crow, when
they wore told what was to ho attempted, saying that the
feat was absolutely impossible, nevertheless, the oar
•went over in fine shape ana readied Springfield the next
evening. A short dolay was experienced here in charging
auo to lack of water power at the Contral Station. Mean¬
while tho Detroit ear was spinning along the Massachusetts
end Maine coasts, through Portsmouth and Portland on to
Poland Springs, arousing great interest among the summer
guests, all of whom questioned the feasibility of con¬
tinuing tho trip. Undaunted, both crows kept on their
respective ways, tho Bailoy going through Claremont,
Hew Hampshire, and Hewport, past Sunapoe Lake end making
her night stop at Plymouth and again recharge. She De¬
troit at this time was plowing through heavy sand from
Poland Springs, on route to Brotton Woods, to gain which
she had tho climb through Crawford Hotoh and over
Sug-a-War Hill - tho Waterloo of many a big oar. Both
oars mot at Hotel Brotton Woods, Mount Washington, a
trifle behind the regular sohodulo, duo solely to delays
in charging, for it must be realized, that on this
maiden trip through tho localities whoro olootrio oars
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woro practically unknown, some of the charging facili¬
ties woro dooidodly orudo.
At Bratton Woods 9 a ploaaant diversion from
tho original schedule was dooidod upon, no less than
an attempt to olimh to tho summit of iiount Washington
hy tho wagon road. Tho cars . woro therefore driven to
Jackson, the nearest charging point, and thonoe to
Glen, tho base of the actual climb, f Due to unavoidable
delays and heavy weather it wa3 nooossary to spond the
night at the "Half Way House", and continue tho climb
nest morning1. Imagine tho sight of tho too little
oleotrics, o'aoh with its 2-1/2 horse power motor, pull¬
ing its ton load of oar ana oquipmont up tho right miles
of 14$ grade with hero and there spots of 20$ and over,
the maximum hoing 27$. The actual summit of tho moun¬
tain was not reached, owing to tho prosonoe of sloet,
hail and a hoavy galo, which made it impossible, but
tho cars woro not turned back until thoy had ascended
nearly 6,000 feet end were within one milo of the top,
their altitude) then being so great that the olouds, in
and
great banks, were billowing beneath, lilre ocean, broalrore
polled - in from every direction^ Considering tho con¬
ditions encountered, it is safe to say, that no oar,
whatever might bo its horse power, could have roaohed
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12. ,13, i4, ir 16
tlvo DU3vua.it of .'lou'.t TtoDhington at that tiiao. .tlthough
the o&xo did not roaoh tho Worth Vole, tholr farthost
Worth was a noot creditable porfoxrasraoo. Tho return
through a blinding ruin and wind atom that swept tho
Mountain and n&dr the road earnest uudiBoornlblo woo a
tzlp novor to ho forgotten by the Aslwrs. J'roei Srotton
.-'ooda the two od**s oonllnned over the proscribed route
without aloh&p daft substantially o» eohofiulo. Sho Sailoy
odonoto* whov/cul a total raiieago of 1017.99 r&ioo, th#
actual running tiao vmo 00 hows end 351 alnuteo, end tho
ovotugo oped A for tho entire trip was 11,77 radios per
hour, She itotrolt nettle a total of 1017,78 ratios in
09 hours ami 26 Minutes, with m average speed of n.3S
lailoe per /tour.
"t given no pleasure at this tino to soy that
at every olootrio light plant where charging vrao clone,
every possible conui deration was extended to tho crowo
of both oars and ;.mny courtouioo were oito\m,for which
wo wish to extend out thanlco,
fho tripe, which have boon d-fsorlboft, eonctltuto
tho worlc that hoe boon done do far In showing to tho
public that the olootrio Id a oar of unnuaptiotod utility
and of groat convenience. Shoao trips wore itihon without
tho olightoat hardship, hut on tho contrary tho young
non who actually aoMovod tho porfematioOD enjoyed tholr
C'Hperionoecv Sven now, a ropotition of any one of thorn
eon bo safely undortclcen by any properly equipped
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clootrlo car, but in the future , no doubt the oyportuai-
tioo for ohx»6in0 will be improved. .Mlc to many
thoeo yor oimnooa of clootrio- uutonoMloo uay be in the
nature of a revelation , further tripe era in contempla¬
tion that will bo evon Jiore rouuuicnblo.
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1910. Cement (D-1 0-1 3)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Edison Portland Cement Co. and to the manufacture and sale
of cement. Included are letters concerning competitive bids, litigation, and
efforts to cooperate with other cement manufacturers in controlling prices and
supply. There are also items regarding negotiations with John W. Moyes to
manufacture cement in Canada and a letter announcing the death of the
company's president, Robert H. Thompson. Among the correspondents are
Walter S. Mallory, vice president (later president) of the Edison Portland
Cement Co.; Frank L. Dyer, general counsel; and E. Meyer, manager of sales.
Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include meeting announcements; letters of introduction,
transmittal, and acknowledgment; and documents that duplicate information in
selected material.
Related material can be found in D-1 0-09 (Battery, Storage - Foreign -
Moyes, John W.).
TKe Edison Portland Cement Co.
Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
p. o. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
Mr. Prank L. Dyer, ,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, II. J.
Dear Mr. Dyer:-
January 3, 1910.
m 3r
Paragraph 3, Schedule "A", of the Agreement
between the North American Portland Cement Co. and the various
Licensees, reads in part as follows
"But the failure of any Licensee to
institute suit* or to collect at the end of thirty
days or to collect interest, shall not render the
Licensee liable for damages provided for breach
of the accompanying agreement , provided the sale
has been made by the Licensee in good faith on
terms no more favorable than those herein pre¬
scribed and the Licensee haB made due commercial
efforts to enforce such terms."
It is proposed to change this and substitute
the following:
"Interest at the rate of 6% shall
be charged on all accounts running beyond the due
date. If notes are taken for an account after
the due date period, all such notes shall bear
interest at the rate of per annum" .
ThiB matter will come up for voting at tte
next meeting of the Licensor. I am under the impression
that interest cannot be legally enforced on an open account .
I do not know, however, where I obtained this impression.
Will you kindly advise me in the matter, as
we certainly do not want to add to our License Agreement a
clause which is illegal. Our usual termB are 30 days net,
or lit per barrel for cash in 10 days.
Yours very truly,
~\AJVvvv.
P?.A:xl*~v c(
Jan. 11,
1910.
Y/altor S3 . Mallory, J3sq.,
Stowartsville, II. j;
My dear Mr. Mallory:
Your favor of the 3rd inst. has
boon roooived . I find that although thore aro con¬
flicting doololons, tho vroitfit of authority Is to the
offoot that whore goods aro sold, tho bill to bo paid
at tho expiration of a given time, as for instance 30
days, tho seller is entitled to intorost upon tho account
from tho date when tho paymont is duo.
I soe no reason why tho proposed
change should not bo entirely legal, and it rests en¬
tirely with you of couroo to dooide whether or not you
would care to accept it as a question of policy.
Yours very truly.
General Counsel.
FU) /Mi
Ur. ShO! Graf,
Ifsticn.-.l jiono;;r ■ Co., •_ cl . ,
V.’illosdcn function, ">onuon.
:.:y do; IV ;:v. Gref:
Ac you probably 3;nov, '•••
number of rnito important invent! one re la-,
ana has obtained several ferr-i.-m t-nt--
3:iXn. I bor; to hand you horowith Hat of those
onto. I Xr-o com! ycu the boor! c.-n rut ant/ v-"-lc
a vcv-r clear iilo:: of v/h.-vfc the invention is.
■i nufucturo
brevod
i'hic kiln has ooon need with vory Croat ouoc.ooo in this
country and effects very essential ooonoaioo in coal consumption.
Almost all of the largo producers of "ortland Coaiont in the
Unitod States arc uniag the Edison kiln and many of them nrc ■
paying royalties to ;,ir. Edison.
Pron time to time the ouostion has conic up of paying
addition:! yearly taxes on those patents or going to oxponso in
rcforcnco to working them, and hr. Edison has often said to no
that ho would like if possible to got rid of those patents at
almost any figure. I suggested that possibly you might take up
t3an matter in a personal way and soc if anything could be dono
towards soiling the patonts, and ho thinks it would bo a good
'i'honas Graf.
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S’/fi/lO.
OOhdUft. f course he would n y you r. liberal comic a ion of
cay 15 or 20$j if you cuoooodod in sol i»g. thorn, but ho would 7u5C*
v.’ioh to have you fin lly dispose of than until he has h cl tho
opportunity of considering tho offer. .! know hov lie fool:; about
tho patents, however, and I bolievo ho would accept inost any
kind of an offer. I roalioo tlu-t tii» oondifcionc in furopo ro
not th< car :n as in trie, country hoc uoo tm re you havo cheap l-hor
and c::ponr;ive oc.-.l -ce the nethods of burning cement ere or.itc
different frors those in vogue in tho united :;t- toe. 1 iah,
nowover, mar you •/ou.i.G loch into tho r: C:'!;or "m; v: ?.:o an uiricc
anoir.il ml see if you can do "vr-i mug toward.: getting nice of tho
hot yo art ion! rly yarn you of the cl ng of tho patents
gottlng into the hands of nor rho would airply in.-.hi. use of hr.
'hi; aon1 : ram: to ormleit th - m-pany. ;< f the p. t anta are cold
th.cy shoula h . turn. -.cl ever to cone bona fide purchncor rho intondo
to do a cue thi; in v;ith the:;, ingon d f at; unu not to : one. speculator
who ooliovoc th.t having acouiroO. the patents of hr. .'Mi:: on he
night bo bio to coll stock to unsuspecting people. In othor
words, i regard the opportunity us not being particularly bright
so far s disposing of the pat-nto to the nigh t hind cf a pur¬
chaser arc concerned, although I do not think you would have any
difficulty in turning then over to cono gambler who night bo very
glad of tho opportunity to n ko a. lot of nonoy for a very little
investment , and I rant to v;am you particularly to fight shy of
those pcoplo.
let no have your views of tho natter, end do not, of
course, take any dofinito ana final stops until you : dvico us
fully 00n00Tnin“ tllc saino' Yours very truly, Con . Counsol .
[ATTACHMENT]
Mr. Dyer:
■Dec. 13, 1909
I hand you herewith a list of long kiln patents,
which you may wish to take up with Mr. Graf:
Greatpolioai87 C°lnplete ICiln> Ho* 3.4*404, Jan. 20, 1903,
v Germany, Ho. 163,828 Jan. 30, 1903, Polio 220 and No.
^?> 19°5> Polio '360 (Division of Polio
i7'. Covers the cast iron sections of the kiln.
The original application was finally rejected.
Prance^Complete ICiln, No. 328,917, Jan. 2o, 1905, Polio
v Austria, ^Complete Kiln, No. 22,264, Jan. 1, 1905, Polio
* Belgium,, Complete Kiln, No. 168,349, Jan. 29, 1903, Polio
'■-Spain, Complete Kiln, No. 31,110, June 1, 1903, Polio
" Nonray^Complete Kiln, No. 15,378, Jan. 29, 1903, Polio
Sweden No. 20,752, Jan. 29, 1903, Polio 190, No. 19,084
15°5, Polio 237, and No. 19,551, April 27,
1905, Polio 239, Long Kiln and divisional patents
thereon.
Shall I obtain copies of the above patents so that
you may send them to Mr. Graf, or v/ill you request Mr. Graf to
procure them?
JS
Lewi s .
2/15/10.
I hand you horowith original quotations for Portland
> the Edison iicnufacturing Co. caul the national
■ono graph Co. for 1!5,000 barrels each "as requested during
e life of job", together with letter from the Edison Port-
.nd Cement Co. with :.ir. Edison’s memorandum thereon, sug- *
Sizing that these quotations should ho accepted.
D/lV/Vz
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TRe Edison Portland Cement Co.
Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station. NEW VILLAGE, N.
o. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
'•aoon, "iohordooR, Von.oulc, pnrhart ' and nyoolf, nml our cooo
v.Tio rone over and oonrsj At,; d and "v. "charter diooovered fiat
tho v/ronc for:: hnd boon used by donator Rolhnrclt , who in
■'tout * a lawyer, in preparinr Me declaration. An you know,
the property io owned by ft out ’ n wife an.’ that ftout rur.a
the buoinotio in hiri ovm nauo, buying end eel lire poodo in hie
own roue, bavirir letter, hando and hill Hondo, and koonlnp hid
eanl: account in hits own nano.
-ho hill of complaint cot up that there vrao
Great loco to the buoineoo of the plaintiff, Pro. ftout,
duo to our diveroion of water. ' r. iToOnrter und .Tiulpo
arrow both acreod that they would probably be nblo to tie
uebhnrdt up to ouch an extant in takinr; hie totitii:ionv that
they oould an oil hi a oaeo. bcoterday norninr, shortly after
the court was opened, hr. WcOartor no rune thio point, ‘and
the ’udGo decided in hiu favor, then, inntend of Oebhnrdt
doinr; ao wo all had auppoeod ho would do, ntate that he
would be unable to po on ar.d develop hie cane with practically
all hie inport ant tootir.ony cut out., ho called bin throo
principal witnoOOon, 'rc. .".tout, John 'tout, and tho niller
who for nix yearn onoratod the Mill, giving ?:r. hoCartor an
opportunity to crooe c:cn-iinc thon and practically dinclono
thoir whole caoo. then, after 'charter had obtained dodo
very danncinc ntnteironta from r.tout ao to bio aide of the
caoo, cobkurdt Doomed to wnko up and realise what a nintake
ho woo nahinc, and aoked poroi colon to anew! hio declaration.
1 '.charter thon oaid th.at wo had no objection to the nnonduont
except tnat wo raunt be Given the ncceo'.inry tine to prepare
our once under tho new conditiona, otatinr that wo had*
' \
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CD. LTD.,
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS & RECORDS,
EDISON WD RKS,
Q. &d'iMcrn^
Wl LLESDE
lc Til . G/l.U
MW February 17th, 1910,
*Y/
Dyer Esq., President,
National Phonograph Co.,
0 P. A N g'e., n.j. , N.S.A.
Dear Mr. Dyer ,
I received your favour of 4th inst. with reference
to and enclosing patents relating to cement, manufacture. I
have carefully noted contents of your letter, and have been
able to-day to get into communication with the most important
constructor of cement manufacturing plants in Germany , so that
I will soon be able to form an opinion about the possibilities
of a sale of these patents as far as Germany is concerned.
Owing to the other business I have to attend to, 1
am not able, Just at this moment, to deal at once with the
English, French and other situations, but this I will do as
soon as mv time permits, and I will let you know the results.
It is of course understood that the final settlement should be
effected from Orange.
Yours very truly,
Managing Director.
[ATTACHMENT]
Hot. 10, 1909.
Wells Ear go Company,
51 Broadway,
Hew York City.
Gentlemen:
The National Phonograph Co., Edison Manufacturing Co.
and Edison Phonograph Works receive and ship large quantities' of
goods through the Wells Ear go Company and are somewhat affiliated
with the Edison Portland Cement Company by reason of Ur. Edison's
connection with all of these concerns. All of our buildings at
Orange are constructed of Edison Portland Cement, which is of the
highest character, and it has been satisfactory in every respect.
I am informed that the Wells Eargo Company recently gave out
a contract for a large stable at Jersey City, in which Vulcanite
Cement V7as specified, thereby preventing the Edison Portland Cement
Company from having an opportunity to make a sale. If it is
possible for the Edison cement to be used in any of your work I
am sure that you will find it very satisfactory.
Yours very truly,
PID/IWW
President
[ATTACHMENT!
Wells Fargo & Company
Express
51 Broadway, New "ybrntDecember 7th, 1909
//€"£
Mr. Prank L. Dyer,
President, national Phonograph Company,
Orange, N.J.
My dear Sir:
Your favor of November 10th was promptly referred to
our Architect, and X am very sorry indeed to learn that the contractor
had already placed his order with the Vulcanite Company for the
necessary cement in connection with the foundation work. Our
Architect, will, however, indicate that the use of the Edison
cement will be perfectly agreeable to us in case any is used in
other parts of the work. I am very sorry that it was not
brought to my attention earlier that your concern was interested
in cement. I hope we may be able to use it later in other
x EJC
x file
Vuhterdny I wan in Low ork in conn option
with the conference v/e arc having with nil the Trunk line
railroad!? relative ton general readjustment of the freight
situation, the idea being to have the railroads understand
the fact that the conont industry in the Lehigh Valley is
hfririf; threatened hy the competition of the Kills in the
newer cement districts and that the' railroads must commence
to realise the fact that if they arc to keep the in arid out
business in connection with the cement industry, which
amounts to about 10,C00,C00 tons of freight per year, that
they must put uti on the same basis no is given our outside
competitors and also put us in aa advantageous position as
they do the pig iron industry in our own section. Y'o
showed thorn that, talcing tho Lehigh Valley district bb a
center, and the freight rates on conont aovering a radius
of 250 miles, ranges from 35;1 to 6C;:,' higher than the rate
per ton mile from Chicago, ft. Louis, Michigan and
Pittsburg districts.
:v also y' o Kul then that the rnto on oool and
limestone to a orient -limits in the ] olii(jh Valley <; Jet riot aro
hirher thnn to the til oof furnaces in tho anno district. '.'o
had n vaxy inti restim; Mooting and tho ronult vain that a
e octal tt i.‘o of five from tho cement i ahvi^-'otur ru wars nripointod
to noot -ith a oinilor connittoo fron the Trunk *ino Anaoci-
ation to ttiroah the not tor out and to r.mko rocwinonctntior.o
to the two 1 error oonriittoon who represented tho roil rondo
and tho oenont manufacturers . This, of oourno, i0 only tho
starting of thio wort: and it will probably tnho ncir.y months
to accomplish t)ia roaulta v/hi oh v;o hope to cot.
Cur r on it ion yesterday was that wo wl oh our
rail roads to put us on an equal with our competitors of other
districts, nnd th.nt w 0 did not object particularly ns to bow
they did it, that in, doorcase our rates or increase the
rates of the other pooplo. In fact, we went so far os to
otatc that in view of tho General increase in nil lines of
froiRht rates, that wo would not object to n General increase
in freiebt rates, provided all the other sonant districts,
as well as tho blast furnace interests, roooivo ouch- advances
as would put us on tbe anne basis.
I will keep you informed fron time to time as
to the proGroso -of this work.
Yours very truly,
■ TThB
Wells Fargo & Company C^v - n
Express
ATLANTIC DEPARTMENT
51 Broadway, Nkw York. May 19, 1910
Mr. Prank L. Dyer,
President, National Phonograph Company,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
Referring to your favor of the 3rd instant, with regard
to the purchase of cement for use in the building now being
erected in Jersey City, - would say that I am advised by con¬
tractors that orders have been issued to specify your cement in
making the next purchase , and which I think will be for quite a
large portion of" the work. Por your information would say
that the question of using your cement was not overlooked in
the preparation of the specifications , but am informed that the
actiion of your competitor in being the first on the ground re¬
sulted in his securing the order for the cement used in the
first stages of the work.
Trusting this will be satisfactory, 1 remain^
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THe Edison Portland Cement Co.
graph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J. p«„ Arcade^jsu
\ .^o. address. STEW ARTSVILLE, N. J. HH'I.
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. ny 2.”), 1915.,.,
■ Thomas A. . dinon,
Granger , u. J.
Mr. FRANK L. DYER.
gf : :>4
Dear Mr. lidison:-
thvinp to our beinp unable; to pet n quorum
ami also on nocount of the director o' Meeting which wan held
on May ICtli, the uaunl monthly hirectoro' eotin; will not
bo held .
On .Vri day lnct we a (Ivanna cl p risen coverir.p tho
entire Territory "A" 5/ per barrel above tho schedule adopted
by the North tacri can Portland Cement Co., the Vulcanite Co.
hnvinfc taken the same action. V.’o are sendinp out quotationn
good for acceptance for five days, and for uhipmerit not to
exceed thirty days. Y/n have also limited tho Kanapors of our
local offices in mnkinp quotationn to 1 ,CCO barrels. Any
inquiries in excess of thin amount must first Tie referred to
Mr. Meyer, ami in this way v/e hope to he in shape to take
advantage of any condition which may come alone.
An already adviced you, the Atlas Co., some
days since increaood prices in Mow Knpland 5 ^ a barrel, end
I understand that they have now pi von notice that they will
increase the snr/ie amount per barrel in the Maryland and
•le lawn re district, tnhinp effect Mny rsrd .
Y hi s mo mi nr. I saw Mr. tin rat ell, of the Alpha,
and tried to pet him to join with tho Vulcanite and ourselves
anrl make a perioral increase of over the entire "A" Territory
but he said while he would like very much to pet n l'iphor
price, could riot do no unloon the Atlas end T.oMph both
advanced .
Yours very truly,
^pC$o~
June 1st. 1910.
Edison Portland Cement Co.,
V/. S. Mallory V. "P. , |||N o_ ,
Stewartsville H. J.
Dear Sir:-
Mr. Marshall of Marshall Spenoer Co.; our dealers at
Jacksonville Fla., has hcon here with Balmer. They leave tonight
Marshall is up against it; has only the one cargo we
sold him at $1.00. He needs 25,000 barrels and put it up pretty
hard to me. We sent him to Atlas, Phoenix and Hazareth. Atlas
made him a price $1.00 for cargo (this to get him from us). Phoenix
quoted $1.10 and Hazareth 95/ duck mill. He offered them 90/
and they are to advise him Friday.
How why cant we huy a cargo of 5000 barrels at 90 or
95/ from Hazareth. We can use it at savannah, where we need cement
Balmer iB afraid to sell the little he has. It wont hurt us in
the south, and we nan handle it OK and make 10 to 20/ profit and
save our cement. Balmer says it is not so much quality as our
methods of doing business that counts- quiok deliveries-prompt
attention and all around fair treatment.
Hazareth must be on the brink of receivership; but we oan
use the bags in southern trade and even here in Hew York, on special
work, in such an event, by tdrndmg them out.
By buying up this cheap cement we can out out such fellows
as Ford and VanSmith and hotter control the southern situation. We
have the organization and the facilities for knowing the market
long before the other fellows. Why not turn it into money?
I am sending copy of theis to Mr. EdiBon so he will be
able to digest it before you call him up.
Balmer intends selling coal. Why not make the Southern
office a sort of distributor; just like the Carolina Portland Cement Co
or VanSmith at Charleston. We are at both ends and oan do it
better than either of them. He can also get a good brick and
lime account. Balmer has assured me that he oan ruin the Southern
office free of expense to this company.
Yours very truly
Manager of SaleB
TKe Edison Portland Cement Co.
“3,K>AMD Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J. 1
P. o address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J. SS^E: !
.Tune 6, 1910.
Moyer,
ligr. of Bales,
Hew. York, H. Y.
Dear Sir:-
\c
1 have just received the distribution of
Territoiy "A" and "B" Bales for the month of Hay, and
find them to be ns follows i-
TKRRIl’ORY ''A" PRICBO: -
Distributors - 10£)
Dealers - 47^
Consumers - 19#
Before 1A3/09 2#
Total - 78#
TERRITORY "B« PRICES:- - - - -22#
This is a little disappointing to me, as I
had expected to see a larger increase in Territory "A"
prices than 2 % over April.
You understand that in Territory "B" prices
we have been putting the low price cement to Maryland and
District of Columbia, and also the Western part of New
York State. I have instructed our people from .Tune 1st
to put the Maryland and District of Columbia in Territory
"A" prices, on account of the advance of 10rf per barreJL'r
The average selling price for May was 67.7s/
-2-
but from this will have to be deducted the dealers'
rebates for shipments in April, making the net about
64.2sf. Of course, this average is lower because the
month of May has to carry its own dealers rebates
plus those of April, but hereafter each month, of course,
will stand by itself so fRr as it relates to the dealers'
discount .
You understand that previous to the first
of Kay the dealers were billed at the same price as the
consumers, and than wore allowed a discount of 5$/ per
barrel as soon as they have made a report to us. This,
however, was changed on the first of May and now the
dealers are billed at a price which is 5d less than the
price to the consumer and no rebate is allowed.
You will note from the above average price
that it is absolutely essential that the Company sell the
laziest amount of cement possible at Territory "A" prices,
btft I hope that our June sales will show a larger amount
at Territory ''A1' prices and a much smaller amount at the
Territory "B" prices.
Yours very truly,
V. p.
rfk. 4 U •
Uoatcn*
xsao*
honors. d. I,. .Bernard,
J. v,'n’TOiaan,
, 5. (Jhurohill ,
Dow S3 re¬
confirming convorrmtion otfer tho ’phono, v/e find th> . the.
other Sonjw.nic are not firm in their advance «vnfl that pr
nil o.f oia* demXcru nan buy alnont any brand »A tlw* old pricou.
An wo do not wish to accumulate too largo mi oaounl; of
cement, and are fitJH under the opinion that Inter privet; will ho
firm at advanco, wo will allow you to tuko owo or yow da fa-rfii
for wrowpt oh ipneut at 1 ho old priooti whom the freight r to 'tet
not ..rovont \ut Sr on netting tl.lfi por bbl. including the <!< h r'r
ooosnias ion, or Cl *10 por bbl. not. ?his, of couroo, in only for
cor load lote and for prompt shipment and you nrn not to nand out
coot. "lions; generally* t'o wmt you to bo in n position to ehut off
nil of thin bueinooe on receipt of a telephone from tho writer ;n (1
not hs'.'vo a lot of quotations out. J>o not oomit yoarnolf for a
shipment in any or.no beyond the firtit of July.
Of courao you understand tit t wo would like to have rotao
Ijti'ro contractu running Into next year that will not «« 1,1.11$ at the
mill.
I
6th, 1910.
Hr. H 3. Mallory, Vioe Pros., *'K’
Kill son Portland Ooment Oo. ,
Stewnrtsvillo , II. J.
Boar fiir:-
Tho writer finds that wo aro losing our dealers ' trade right
and left for tho reason that the other companies are not advancing
their prices and we include the Atlas and Vulcanite. Our comont stool:
reserve has gone up to probably 05,000 barrels hy thin timo and wo pre¬
sume that tho rnonoy conditions have not changed, and that wo cannot
take any risk of having a very muoh larger stook than 100,000 barrels.
We oannot wait until we have accumulated stock boforo taking action,
consequently the writer has 'phoned the Philadelphia and How York Offices
to accept orders at old prices for shipment within thirty days temporarily.
As soon as wcVgot roport of the Btook of oement on hand at the
first of the month, if we find that the stocks have boon still morn
depleted and orders come in again, we can go buck to the five cents advance.
The writer felt that ooma action must he taken immediately to
protect our trade and not let the stock get beyond us. IVo cannot expect
any permanent advance until tho other Companies got filled up; further¬
more, the output of the mill has increased and unless shipping orders
come in faster wo arc likely to get our stook ovor 100,000 barrels before
we know it, and orders cannot be gotten on short notioe: they must be
taken onre of in advance.
em/u.
Very truly yours,
EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT CO.
By
Manager of Sales.
Copy to
MR. EDISON.
M 8" 1810
June 7, 1910.
;.'r . l;. Meyer,
Mgr. of Wales ,
New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir:-
X an in receipt of yours Gth, from Boston,
relative to prices, .end T think you are right in your
decision, as we no w have a stock on hand of about 83,412
■barrels and hy the tine you Ret under way taking business
again, the stock will probably have accumulate to 100,000
barrels, which is the limit I desire it to go.
One thine, however, I want you to be sure
and have all the offices observe. That is, while they
take business only for prompt shipment, they are to send
out no quotations on which v;e might pet caught , for
reasons already explained to you, it is not necessary to
v
repeat here.
Yours very truly,
wnii-npB
ii>CX fijworUi
TEe Edison Portland Cement Co.
>n, NEW VILLAGE. N.J.
ess. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
June 25th, 1910.
8t.CJomo°UBt?Md?nB
Utdon'BuH'dfnc dl
Natlona U i!k U ?ldl
Mr. Frank L. Dyer,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
I regret to inform you that Mr. Robert H.
Thompson died this morning about 10 o'clock. He had been
sick for several dayB with pneumonia, and until yesterday
we were hopeful that he might recover. The date of the
funeral has not as yet been settled, but probably will be
on Tuesday from hiB home 282 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Yours very truly,
""N/ST^rwv^ i
Vice President
3 1 0 A
Hr. W. s. Mallory,
Edison Portland Cement Company,
Stewartsville, H.J.
Hy dear Mr, Mallory:
I have been having some negotiations recently with Mr. J. w.
Moyse, of Toronto, Canada, on the subject of disposing of the Can¬
adian rights in the storage Battery, and I have mentioned to him
tho^possibility of doing something In Canada with our Cement Pot.
He has gotten together a very strong body of mon who seem
, oe Prepay to push the Storage Battery, and ho is anxious to
look into the Cement situation, to see if it would be interesting
Mr. Moyse and his associates expeat to be in Orange on
Tuesday next, the 12th instant, and they will then probably wish
to go to Hew Village so as to inspeot the cement plant.
.. would you propose in the way of arrangements, with
them, to visit the plant? It occurs to me that they might
leave here Tuesday evening, and spend the night in Easton, and
§° *rown *° Kew Village in the morning. If this plan is
satisfactory to you, or if you have any other soheme to suggest,
let me know so. that I may know what to do when they come. of
Hi iB t p0S£il)12 no-6 001110 Orange, but I have
very little doubt but what they will do so.
Yours very truly.
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr. George II. Badger,
, Rdioon Phonograph v/orka,
Orange , N. J.
*'y dear Badger: -
July '*7, 1910.
You will renenbor during the spring
Mr. Ilertor and I had a talk with you on the subject of
the Boll litigation, and otnted that wo would probably
want you to teotiiy in a suit that we are having over
the Holla. .
“W CS£"~
:'r. I.ouio Hicko.^Hr. Rdioon'a at\gr-
ney, wishes to talk with you and I have told him that
you will either go to Mow York and see hiri during the
day or some evening, or some Sunday, just aa ho nould
find the tine to boo you, an he io veiy buay in the
ouit bo- he io now taking teotinony.
Will you, therefore, please arrange
bo that you will he able to go to Hr. Hi oka on very abort
notice. In all probability Hr. Hicks will wont to see
you cither the latter part of thio or the early part of
next v/eek.
Youra very truly,
V. P.
' THe Edison Portland Cement Co
Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J. pkiiadilphia? pa?,* .
Z"u"r p, o address. STEWARTSV1LLE, N. J.
July 14, 19?.p,
■Mr. E. L. Dyer,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J. ||J|
Dear Mr. Ryer:-
I beg herewith to hand you a oopy
of a letter I have today written Mr. EdiBon, covering
the visit of Mr. Moyes and hiB friends yesterday, which
explains itself.
Yours very truly,
V/S&-RBX
ENCLOSURE:-
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr. DYER:
July 14, 1910.
Dear Ur. Edison: -
Uosors. Uoyeo, Clark and tiinko '.-/ere
at the Vlant yesterday afternoon nnd I showed then
"hrou £h thoroughly nnd at the sane time Rave them full
information an to our various mechanical devices, also
percentage of operntinR time, besides which I rovo them
information bo to our cooto and was with them until
after ci'Rht o’clock l.ant niRht, when they left for
Toronto. All three oocmed to ho vory much pleased
v/ith what they oav/ and when they left stated that we
would henr from them aRain.
Ur. Uoyeo a3ked me if I would he
willing to come to Toronto in case he deemed it de¬
sirable, so that I could talk with 3ome of their local
friends, and 1 told him I would he very Rlad to ro at
any time.
Yours vory truly,
V. I>.
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Hr. Thomas A. Edison,
Valley Road,
West Orange, IT, J.
P'siP ' "V/
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L ''study to the
pavements for
4j?¥*
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Dear Sir: — lA AP' yfci/** „ .
L-4- (^e,/ ..e- lU'
I note from the newspapers that youare experijoar^n'gf
with cement -concrete surfaces for roads and streets.,
X have given a good deal of attention-lnd ''Studi
same matter and have for years advocated'-c'orfertfe^e pa^
streets where the conditions were sui'iajil^ ^In a
articles on street pavements in 19p4 ^ devoted one article to this
subject (See Engineering Hews for July 21st, 1904).
Hot a little concrete pavement has been laid since then
in a number of cities. But as a rule the Work has not been de¬
signed and carried out along scientific and practical lines, but
these pavements have nevertheless given good results . There are
a number of patented pavements of this general class that have been
laid quite extensively, the patented feature being some special
form of mixing and laying the concrete, but they possess no ad¬
vantages or merits over plain concrete.
Concrete pavements are well suited to main roads and
ohe less heavily travelled city streets. Experience has proven
that they are not durable upon city streets carrying more than a
Thos. A. Edison,
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moderate quantity of travel; but my oontention has been that for
such roads and streets as the pavement is suitable for, a properly
constructed concrete pavement will yield better returns for the
money invested in it than will any other kind of pavement.
The most serious objection to it is that the street must
be closed to travel until the concrete has thoroughly set - a period,
usually, of from seven days to two weeks.
I do not know whether you are working along lines involv¬
ing unusual or novel methods of construction, and are proposing
something superior to plain concrete, but I am satisfied that there '
is a wide and profitable field for plain concrete pavements properly
constructed.
My own idea has been a pavement laid in two courses; -
the base or foundation course about four inches thick of ordinary
concrete, proportioned say 1:3:7, and a top or finishing course,
two inches thick, of special mixture, say one part cement two parts
sand and four parts crushed trap rock of a size to pass a three-
eighths inch screen.
I am confident that if a compan;'' were organized to intro¬
duce and construct such a pavement under proper technical direction
it would attain great success. Progress would, of course, be slow
at first, but as the merits of the work became demonstrated there
should be a large market.
'■Bios. A. Edison, -3- 9/l/L0
There is at present a wide cap, in "Doth cost and use-
fullness, between the Macadam road and the higher class pavements;
such asy asphalt, brick and wood, that such a pavement would, in
my opinion, fill.
I should be glad to be connected with any company that
would take up the matter along correct and intelligent lines.
Yours very truly,
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Orange ,
Dear Sir:
I have through Mr. J(oJin ^JUller^
'notice our Spiral Truss Bar, a^new stee;
crete: I learned from him that
busy to go into the matter, but"
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some merit: Will you confirm this?
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success.
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must travel before making cur product an assured
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Mr. Frank I. Dyer,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J
Dear Mr. Pyer:-
^December 2, 1910.
1 am in receipt of yours 30th, and I
am more than pleased to note that it is your opinion
that an agreement among the various Cement Manufacturers
to close down their plants on Sunday would not be a
violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Law. Also that in
the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois
and New York there are laws against unnecessary operations,
and I presume this is the case in most other States.
This gives me exactly the information
I desired, and I thank you very much for it.
Since seeing you, I have been spending
a good deal of time on this proposition, and I find that
if the Cement Companies would all agree to discontinue
Sunday operations from Jan. 1st to June 1st next year,
that it would absolutely solve the problem of over cap¬
acity, as assuming the productions and shipments to be
practically the Bame next year as this for the first
six months, on June 1st, 1911, the country would only
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have at out thirty days' supply of stock, which would
mean a good demand for all the product we oould manu¬
facture up to the first of November at good prices.
Yours very truly,
WSlI-KBS
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1910. Cement House (D-10-14)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the widely publicized
development of Edison's poured concrete house. Much of the material consists
of unsolicited inquiries regarding the unique nature, quick construction, and low
cost of the projected house. Also included are requests to view or display
Edison's one-quarter scale model as well as correspondence concerning
concrete construction generally. Many of the unsolicited letters contain Edison
marginalia, usually indicating that a prepared circular be sent in response.
Less than 10 percent of the documents have been selected. With the
exception of a few samples, unsolicited inquiries have not been selected.
Related material can be found in D-10-32 (Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited
Correspondence - Business - Cement House).
This is to remind you that you were going to let us
know when the first section of your concrete house was ready to
pour, so that we might see the operation.
The Purchasing Agent of the Erie R. R. just asked us to
quote him a price on two of these houses, hut we explained that they
were not adapted to building in such limited numbers.
Yours truly,
I am in receipt of many letters regarding newspaper articles,
describing a cement house which 1 am about to erect. The writers
of most of the letters have misread the articles and I take this
occasion to explain just what I propose to do.
I now have a model, one- fourth the size of the house, designed
by Hew York architects.
I am constructing iron moulds and devising machinery,
whereby a full sized house, can be cast in twelve hours, after the
moulds are in position. At the end of six days, the iron moulds are
removed and the house will be complete, including Btairs, partitions,
mantels, baths, etc., and after drying six days will probably be
ready for occupancy.
To build this house for One Thousand Dollars, it i3 essential
that it be erected on sandy soils, as the material excavated for the
cellar is all that is required to build the house, except, of course,
the cement.
The cost of the iron moulds will be about $25,000.00, the cost
of the other machinery about $15,000.00. From this outfit, an un¬
limited number of houses can be erected. But houses cannot be erected
for the price named, with a single mould, as the machinery and the men
would be idle several days. But, if say moulds for six houses were
used, the machinery and the men would be kept in continuous employ¬
ment; erecting from 10 to 12 houses monthly. The patterns which 1 am
making are so devised that the same patterns oan he used to make over
sixteen different types of houses.
It is probable that companies will be formed, who will have
several moulds, each of a different design and will go actively into
business.
I have not gone into this with the idea of making money from
it, and will be glad to license reputable parties to make moulds and
erect houses, without any payments on account of patents. The only
restriction being; that the designs of the houses be satisfactory to
me, and that they shall use good material; but nothing will be done
until the experimental house is erected.
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pamphlet of concrete homes, editioni/of February* 1&L0. ' I think,
have solved the great problem of good, ocmgfortabjte , sub-^
) connected wilh your plant , .j— *
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mwof February* 1&L0. I think,
stantial homes at a comparatively low price. ^ f
iWifiij «■£ «-iwm
I regret that I overlooked your birthday anniversary ’orut he
11th; but I can congratulate you just a's well, pWijbly, now);
and the congratulation^ will take a more concrete form when I tell
you that recently in <
• laboratory we tested t
and it surpassed in almost every respect any of the many cements
we have tested. The molds of neat cement, after standing 30 days,
withstood a tensile strain of over 1,000 pounds to the square
inch before breaking.
s haven't had any other cement that would
Faithfully yours,
American Building Corporation
299 BROADWAY
NEW YORK. U. S. A . . •» 2
Kr. Thomas ft. Edison,
port Kyor, Pin.,
Dear Sir:-
I have successfully built an nil concrete house at I'.ont-
clnir, Nov; Jersey, and it was not an en3y designyeither inside or out.
There is no wood or anything but concrete everywhere.
The house would cost §10,000 in first class frame, and 1 .
managed to keep the cost down to about §10,000. The Prudential Insur¬
ance Co., Newark, has loaned me §6000 at 5 % on it without nny firo Insur¬
ance policy. John Vfanamaker has agreed to furnish and decorato it in a
befitting manner, and is now engaged in doing so, free of charge to me, as
an advertisement for his house etc. , everything is alright, only I dont see
any money in it for me, and that is what I went into it for. The people
come in throngs to look, and think it beautiful and strong, but they are
skeptical or something about giving contracts. It is a breeding place for
curiosity seekers, and altogether I can't for the life of me see the other
end. It looks to me as though the public was not ready for the concrete
dwellings, (that is the medium well to do public,) for I have had hundreds
of letters, and thousands have 3een the house and all seem favorably im¬
pressed, but it is all so strange to them, that I cannot land contracts.
I dont know why, for I have done my best, and can build within 12JS as low
as first class frame, but a public that buys stocks when high, and sells
tnem when low, may continue to: take perishable wood instead of stone. fo>
thoir homes at the same price.
I did not know but what
about now, whether to close shop or kee
ate it very much. I used your cement
you could give me a word of advise
p on plugging. I would appreci-
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I do not suppose you will remember meV so^ ‘"l
man?4^0ars ^ave Passed since my brother and I severed our con- v
neotion with the Phonograph, Xineteaoope , and Vitascope business,
-ossibly, the old letter head on which this is typed may reoall
my personality. * *
I have recently secured a large block of unimproved
land in the centre of this City, and calculate to build on
ij a “UJ?i)er of neat cottages, such as can be sold to members of
the Civil Service at a reasonable figure.
. . Before making' my contracts, I would like very
much to get details of your system, by which the greater rart of
a good sized cottage can be cheaply built, practically without
a seam in h, by using concrete. If you can spare the time,
and do not think it too much trouble, I would be deeply indebted
to you if you would send me some of the literature on the subject.
nr,* j_v . trusting that you still enjoy the vigour of mind
and body that characterized you when we last met, I am.
Yours very truly.
m/s.
^ American Building Corporation ^
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lottnp of Enr. , 3Lh, which yo^Erectatl I.r, hills, lo 30Ril
r.sef wars short, but it .seemed to cover the point, and I thank you for your inV'
pres mono. Just r. word here which needs no reoly, X have thourht a r*eat
deal about your coning concrete house. 1 think yoif house, to insure success
shoulu ^launched boldly, while you yourself are livinE, and should be well
°u 0 sea, before you pass away. j think that more good could be done, and
more building too, in one year with you living, t].an in a. quarter of a century
or^0L‘ vW <1 ^»v%nU lf y?u told Ule people that you would loon G5£
sell to?". ™ e°° L’ ,Uf U°5’ “aed cement) that you would'
i, .. ™10 couont than the Atlas people do to-day. 1 think also that an office
1- a le selling a bond on a specific security like these houses, would with your
S*1, !,?' business than 1000 contractors and builders could produce houses
^very school teacher, minister, professional man, and the like who are “odor,'
parly finance the' matter in a sooedy°nnnnert (so^h/lb *no 0° M * MoaeS.t0 pr0“
to work itself out) aft it has token -nd mil *1! i lfc consum-nC years
house itself to an'uncuentionabt^c^ to^r own mind?" °Ut ^ C°nCr#t‘
and T n--J0r°„°r O1 property in Uie world, is 1 understand mortaared to heath
t?ccE° /5r° ^ ^-/-^"““"c'raiTthf LoanecoSanies irtlTnol doTf^t r ’
<-ocie. Aiie ijond would have the rrectes nublin ,, °
your name and specific security. „ u ' " enr1lh °" ^
it, and almost as much good to the people as the frouse itself. S°° V1S1°nS in
1 hope I have not tirod you.
March 23, 1910,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory ,
Orange, H. J.
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Dear Sir:
We are constant^/j receiving inquiries about m
“’fc'fnwt re lust how youVw
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iritAfes Real fixate Trust
poured concrete house and write toincmire just how you\wbuld f .
ld wr^Tf^n
like us to answer these incflf^rjies
Bor instance, the Sec
Boston, asked !'Will you kindty^furn^feh us'vv
you have regarding the handlin§’*ff^'£}i°ie"_ ( Edison^ mo uld^_
this terriroty, advising us what the limitations and restr^^ons
will he, and also what we can expect in the way of marginal profit
in the handling of these".
The Johnston & Larimer Co. of Wichita, Kansas, write,
"Will you kindly give us full particulars as to the price of the
moulds, how many it would take for a working plant, and the cost
of same complete. Also inform us - - the approximate cost
for the style of house that is most used".
Do you wish us to refer inquiries directly to you, or
would you prefer that we should carry on the correspondence and
crystalize the proposition, presenting only the finished results
to you. If the latter, we would like to come to the laboratory
to get some accurate information concerning the cost of the moulds,
where they can he procured, and the conditions under which you
would permit their use, and the probable time when the house could
be put upon the market.
Yours very truly,
April 6th;' 1910.
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J3y attention has) been brought to a system of,, inter-
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changeable metal molds for use in oonoilate,conatrnotion. The
<l..evuLAC.<Ju,*& t^T~
same molds are said to be adaptable to (the construction of any ,
, . ¥ j'-iliet >4 ttxe x*£ <i.«t iA.<nv \l ~
sise, class or design of builillnr, aHScan, it is olaimed, be „
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used over tad over again. This system is said 'tb be' Covered ~ <'
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by patents. A year or so ago, I reoall having seen in the press,’ j
_ . . . . , , &CjC- Co.>'CvrtT <rC~ «5 •
mention of your having done oertaln ejpperirpental work alojug the j
lines of concrete construction^ aiji the use o£ semens ort of metal I
molds in connection therewith
Bepresentlng oertaln people who hate . tOeT'uonsldera-
tion the advisability of Investing moneys in the system above
briefly referred to, it ooourred to me that it would be very de¬
sirable for them to ascertain the result of your experience with
metal molds in Conor ete oonstruotlon, and also the nature and
extent of any patent righto you might have in oonnaotion therewith.
I appreciate that I am presuming a great deal in asking you to. give
us gratis such information concerning the above, as in your opinion,
might be helpfal to ua, nevertheless, I know of no better way of
procuring information than by going to the man who knows.
Swrias no other motive than the protection of my
olients funds, it oosurrsd to ms that I might properly ask you
three questions:
1. Bo you consider the use of inter changeable metal
molds as atovs desoribed, in oanorata oonstruotlon, feasible and
RANDALL HOYT STERN,
1 98 Broadway
(2) T. A. E.
TELEPHONES £J|§ CORTLANDT
New York City.
commercial?
2. What are the objections to the tiBe of Buoh metal
molds In oonorete oonstruotion ?
3. Do you know of, or have you any patent rights
oovering the use of suoh motal molds?
I shall deeply appreciate the courtesy which you
may show in answering this letter, but if I may be presumptuous
or if the demands upon your time do not admit of a reply, I will
understand.
Respectfully yours,
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The Company is being organized with a Capital $tock of $100.
000.00 in Shhnes of $100.00 each, fully paua^and non-assesable .
It will be more than a pleasure to me pjp* 3 tudy the interests
of the Edison Portland Cement, for it has been the means already of my
becoming very well known in the South, and recently have had people
write me from UewYork, asking for information regarding Concrete Hou¬
ses, and telling me of their intention to build a house of thiB class
and character.
Speaking for all concerned in this new enterprise, it would
be more than a pleasure to see your name on the list of subscribers,
considering the (interest you have in the"Cement World", and the like
interest that the writer takes in being able to retalliate and to
respond to the inquiries of so many people all over this territory.
However small the amount may be , I should consider ii?y an
SO<r<*nct <3/0 Qfrt'/ 03^ Q&dfy
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honor to he favored with a subscription .
I am fully aware of your interests in the state at large, but I
am more than anxious to receive your acknowledgement , and you* "auto¬
graph", in response, 10 % only being called for upon application.
A speoial edition of the "Metropolis" is being mailed seperately
which I trust will prove interesting to you.
Awaiting the favor of your esteemed reply,
Yours very truly, _
C$%»tc2y<S2
The above Company has recently Invested for their clients over §413 .
000.00 and has many calls every day from investors all over the South -
A list of investors will he gladly furnished upon application.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq. , j ^ vvW^..,^ *P.
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Honored and Honorable 3ir:- i LAM'ut‘ j
Hy attention baa been attraoted by , announcements of an ’
~£c> LCue. ®-fc1
exhibition to be given under your auspices at thelHadison Square f
\u- <w <*- A^gr^ws_t>, t
Garden of— what is stated to be your? personal invention of "pourejl I
fbu£rwx U" y^JL * ^ fcw«rvt~> 'W.^-tv-.Cs**®
oement oonorete," for dwellings, effected by the use. nf "moulds”
Vv^-kt-uj £en**t«Afc ktrwAfi*, ■*■ ■
for making not merely walls, but aolmans, aaxrtels, etc. , _
_ o^* OA»4s/ i- it-O ' •"£
1 bog to inquire what radioal difference there is between your
.
moulding of oonorete, and that used (about twenty years |ago at 3t.
Augustine, Florida, by my Father, Hr. Frankliip^ Smith.
You will recall that, subsequently, exaotef SM^mSrtfure
and same methods were used for oaating the famous Hotel Ponoe de
Leon, Aloasar, and Cordova.
My Father in subsequent years agitated the use of oonorete
mouldings and castings in a most energetic way, both for use in
his well-known reproduction of the Homan "House of panaa," at Sara¬
toga Springs, and for his proposed "national Gallery of History and
Art" at Washington.
Hoping for the favor of a reply at your own kind convenience.
Yours very respeoraully,
SCHWARZSGHILD & SULZJ3 BRGER Cl
BEEF AND PORK PACK'Hfife
I. . >
Hr. Thomas A. EdiBon,
West Orange, II. Yf,
Dear Sir : - <r]j
V/e have noted lal
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it^L^'a oonBi^ferablJs fmount of ^itor^tjfee i^A
regard to Oonorete Houses whlahlgah he ^ilt for a cjUt o0>houty$lOOfi.
A number of the employe os of ou^Campgnfr are vej#mucl| f^ter^ted, sis \
they feol that it would he poa s ihl^oV^a gj^wffc man^ftff th,om to^Hld )
houses of this kind if practical,
1 would thank you to advise
if1
q vt
possible to hi
, c\
houses huilt now and if you havo any Vem&'rn age^TCs whom
we,x aouILd
apply to for information in regari
Thanking you for any inform!
to impart, I remain ,
Yours trul
iae
you might %$:
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May £6, 1910.
Ihomaa A. Edison, ssq. ,
Orange, H. j.
Honored and Honorable Sir:- “2$
Yoar eateemed favor of May S1. m duly reoeivaa, and your
friendly effort la replying .. pro.ptly 8utelJr „MtlsJ ^
aoknowledgement .
I m gratified at learning Mat yon rene.ber By Patter and
Me none, and .1th beet aloha, for your own ano.e.a In the far¬
ther development of ,h. o.nant matter,— and ale. hoping for year
prolonged health and life for farther benafaotiona to monhlud.
I remain,
With great respeot.
. ^vix-vif CV^iv^C^.
Dear Sir:-
Laat December, as one of the party qf Members of the
American Sooiety of Mechanical Engineers, I visited your laborator¬
ies and met you personally.
For the past four years, I have been deeply interested
in concrete construction as part of my duties in this Institution,
and X am now supervising the building of a new concrete laboratory
for training our Architectural Construction students in oonorete
construction.
I am very enthusiastic over oonorete house construction,
and am interested in building them in quantities for the public. I
am writing to ask your permission to call on you sometime in July
and learn from you personally your ideas regarding building these
types of houses for public use.
Thanking you for your attention and awaiting your reply
with deep interest,
I am,
Yours very truly,
Head of Department.
[ENCLOSURE]
Th e Tel- Electric Company
The Tel- Electric Piano Player
299 FIFTH AVENUE
Hot York City, June 83nd, 19X0.
Messrs. Uann a MaoHeille,
Ho. 18 East 45th St. ,
How York City.
Gentlemen :-
Confirning telephone conversation which I tad with
you to-day would stato that I should like to eet further infor¬
mation in record to Jir. Edison's concrete houses, as I believe
I can place the agenoy for these houses for Honolulu with
coed people who have plenty of financial backing.
As soon as you are in a position to take this matter
up with me I should bo clad to call and will Ko into the pro¬
position fully.
Yours V&ry truly
General Manager.
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August 4, 191°.
TO PROSPECTIVE EXHIBITORS AT THE HE VI YORK- AMD CHICAGO CEMENT SHOWS: - 6
Via desire to call attention to the paragraph in tho rules and regulations rgovern-
ing tho Shows under the heading, CATALOGUES, SOUVENIRS, ETC., which reads-'as follows:
"Ho catalogues, advertising or printed matter which in the opinion
oftho management are undignified or otherv/ise objectionable shall
be distributed. The distribution of souvenirs and advertising
novelties of all kinds by exhibitors is prohibited. Printed ad¬
vertising matter can be distributed by exhibitors from their own
spaces only. Uniformed attendants must be confined to the spaces
occupied by their employers. No exhibits of parts, accessories or
other goods bearing name or other form of advertisement other
than that of the space occupant may be displayed."
It was felt by tho management that this prohibition of souvenirs and novelties
would be welcomed by all, eliminating as it does a feature which detracts from the
dignity of the exhibition and obviating tho usual competition among exhibitors in tho
distribution of advertising novelties which aro of questionable value and considerable
expense. Those interested are invited to write us expressing their opinion as to tho
desirability of strictly enforcing the rule.
Wo are pleasod to be able to announce the engagement of John Philip Sousa and his
Band of seventy-five musicians to furnish tho music for the Now York Cement Show. Tho
engagement of this band, tho most famous organization of its kind in the world, should
attract to tho exhibition thousands of people from all over the United States. This
is the first instance where a world-famous feature of this character has been intro¬
duced in connection with any previous trade or industrial show.
The attention of prospective exhibitors is again directed to tho fact that all
applications for space to be considered in the first allotment must be filed on or be¬
fore noon, September 1. The numbor of applications already received we believe justi¬
fies tho prediction that space at both tho New York and Chicago Shows will be at a
premium. If the numbor of concerns dosiring space at the Shows is sufficiently large
it is probable that, at the allotment, exhibitors will be limited to fewer spaces than
specified in their applications in order that the space may bo so distributed as to
accomodate tho largost numbor of exhibitors. Ke earnestly request those expecting to
exhibit to forward their applications as promptly as possible so that a fair division
of Bpace may be made.
Yours very truly,
J.P.B.-R.
General Manager.
I have your lottor of August 20 and am
glad to loam that llr. Edison has consented to the
exhibition of the model of his poured house.
I will he unable to advise you of what
looation we can assign you until after the general
allotment of space on September 1. After that, I
will select some location for the exhibit and write
you.
It is agreed that this space is to be
donated and that ilr. Edison is to have the right
to install and supervise the display, which, of courso,
will be subject to our approval and it is understood
that the exhibit is in no way to partake of the nature
of an exhibit of the Edison Portland Cement Co.
You will hear from mo further in a week
or ton days.
JPB-ER
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23, 1910.
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Thomas A. Edison Esq., •-/
The laboratory, Llewellyn Park,
West Orange, h. j.
Hoar Mr. Edison:
It was with much interest that l read the item concerning
the ®800 dwellings which the city of Milwaukee is considering the
erection of, with a prospect for people of small means to he able
to own their own homes.
I have noticed frequently that the working-man pays to
building loan societies and numerous so-called charitable institu¬
tions from 0% to lSji interest on the money they borrow. T7hy do you
uot try to interest some great Long Island company near the entrance
of the new Pennsylvania tunnel in a proposition like this? Thousands
of your cement houses could be put up in the neighborhood and be a
benefit to everybody.
Believe me,
Very truly yours,
[ENCLOSURE]
HYDROZO
♦
A Waterproofing for Cement
Buildings
E. E. BLACKMAN, Patbntbi
a. barrett
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0HcioJv<5m«-
[ENCLOSURE]
Facts About Hydrozo
| | j^DRO^ ia^n mineral liquid to be used on
Hydrozo is not so
dissolved in five tin
liquid is saturated
the solid of the
Hydrozo is not effected by the air; it does not ox¬
idize ; acid will not effect it, neither will alkali. The
change the structure of cement blocks; the block is
not weakened by the application, of Hydrozo.
Hydrozo is patented, and the patents cover not
only the specific formula of Hydrozo, but any mate-
[ENCLOSURE]
To Keep Water Out of Cellars
When cellars ore dug too deep in wet places, the
water sometimes comes up from below. This con¬
dition may be overcome by a coat of the boiling
Hydrozo paste on a good smooth coat of rather poor
cement (say o five to one mixture -of cement) and
Hydrozo coot. This will keep out water effectively.
Anyone con apply Hydrozo as a little experiment¬
brush to flow it on. Break the paste as fine as you
con while it is dry, then odd the gasoline. It may
mix it and apply it to the wall immediately. Good
results may be obtained by spraying it on the wall
The main thing is to get plenty on so it will pene-
Thc rocks mi . . . , _ _ _
When you have treoted the rocks, and th
Hydrozo should be sold in
E. E. BLACKMAN
2949 Clinton Street Lincoln, Nebraska
Let Us duplicate the COLISEUM
great Success of the
,, _ _. OCTOBER 24. TO 31. INCLUSIVE
Madison SquareShow
St. Louis Real Estate given for the -
and Building Indus- St. Louis Real Estate and Building Interests
tries are as Important -
as any in the world.
The Building Depart¬
ment will be of ultra B
importance and the
exhibits will give the
Great Southwest a
splendid opportunity
to see all that is new
in building material
and appliances.
ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO
GEO. S. HILL & CO. Managers
COLISEUM — ST. LOUIS
)d 'fjf Trust
y For Building Intere^sj
_ 0e the Part of the St . Louis Real Estate Exchange and
the St. Louis Building Industries we are asking you if it would be
possible to mako an exhibition of your poured house plates at the
forthcoming Real Estate & Building Show to be given in our city the
la.Bt week in October? This show will be attended very largoly by
those interested from the entire Southwest. Tremendous interest
is manifested in your process in this territory, and we are confi¬
dent that an exhibition of the house will prove of immense mutual
value, and it certainly would be appreciated by the public inter¬
ests of our city. We understand that the municipal management of
Gary, Ind., is making use of this system on a very extensive scale.
For many years the matter,- of housing the middle clasB
citizen has been a troublous one in St. Louis. We believe from
what we know of your poured house that it certainly is a long-
looked for sanitary panacea for the correct housing of tthe people .
An affirmative answer to our request will be creatlv
arvnrflrH Vixr nil •? Q4- a ° J
Respectfully and very truly yours,
September 15th, 1910.
Mr. H. E. Miller.
V/e are returning herewith a letter addressed to Mr. Edison.
That portion relative to the battery we have replied to, and have
advised Mr. A. Holland that the cement house matter had been referred
[ENCLOSURE]
Holland Bros.
OFFICIAL REPORTERS
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Ur. H. T. Millar, Sec'y,
Thoa. A. Edison,
Orange, W. J.
Dear Mr. Miller
Yours of September 13th in hand, and we regret that the
building plates are not near completion. Wortt you please write us
as to when the first house will be finished, and please 1st us
know if it will not be possible for you to let St. Louis seo at
least one of the forms. A very interesting exhibit Could be made
with oven a portion of the molds , and the combined cement in¬
dustries here are very desirous that we have evon one portion
of the molds so that tho process can be shown to the poople.
As undoubtedly you know, St. Louis is a pretentious in¬
dustrial center and the matter of housing the working people
in a sanitary , modern waynis now a paramount issue hero. The
city has boon largely built in an old-time unsanitary fashion,
and it has just awakened to the ultra-importance of correctly
housing the masses, and it is tho concensus of opinion that
the cement house is the happy solution. Mr. Miller, pjLease
bring this carefully to the attention of Mr. Edison, for whom
St. Louis ,3 specially, hae a high and tender regard, and let
us hear from you at your early opportunity.
Very truly yours.
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/.r!D IDEAL lljui ly » ,'JMLSlf AT
l.'.ADIDl’il LJUAiiE GARDtii KtiV YORK CITY.
Edison Cast Concrete House
THIS model represents the character of the house which I will
construct of concrete. I believe it can be built by machinery in
lots of ioo or more at one location for a price which will be so
low that it can be purchased or rented, by families whose total income
is not more than $550 per annum. It is an attempt to solve the housing
question by a practical application of science, and the latest advancement
in cement and mechanical engineering. With this idea in mind I have
conducted a large number of experiments. These experiments have
proven that it is possible to cast a house complete in six hours by pouring
a very wet mixture of gravel, sand and cement into iron moulds having
the form of a house, and after the removal of the forms or moulds, leave
standing a complete house with a fine surface, plain or ornamental, all
in one solid piece, including the cellar, partitions, floors, roof, stairs,
mantels, veranda — in fact everything except the windows and doors,
which arc of wood and the only parts of the house that arc combustible.
The house is to be heated by boiler and radiators in the usual man¬
ner, the plumbing to be open and jointed by electric welding.
The experimental house has the partitions arranged to give, besides
the cellar, two rooms on first story (one to be used as a living
room and the other for a kitchen) ; the second story to have two rooms
and bath; the roof story to have two rooms. When large numbers of
houses are made, the partitions can be changed tn make morn rooms.
Once the house is cast, however, no changes can ever be made — nothing
but dynamite could be used to remove a partition without great cx-
Well-madc concrete, employing a high grade of Portland Cement,
is the' most lasting material known.
In Italy, at the present time, there exist concrete structures made
of old Roman cement, constructed more than a thousand years ago, and .
which are still in a good state of preservation.
Concrete will last as long as granite, and is far more resistant to
The iron moulds for the full size house arc, at the present time,
about 60% completed, and it may be possible that before Fall they will
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M. R. Hutchison, Esq. ,
50 Church Street,
Hew York City.
Rear Sir:
As per your request of the 4th instant
I enclose herewith the two photographs of Mr.
Edison who has affixed his signature thereon.
I also enclose photograph of the proposed concrete
house, which was taken at Madison Square Garden,
also leaflet which gives a fair description of the
scheme.
Will you kindly forward these photoB
to Dr. Findlay and his friend, hy whom he was
introduced.
Thanking you, X am,
Yours very truly,
d{-
Secretary.
MILLER REESE HUTCHISON
ENGINEER
SO CHURCH STREET
November 9, 1910.
Mr, Thomas A, .Edison, ?■;;}'/ # in , ■,
Orange, N, J_.
My dear Mr. Edison,-
X am in receipt of the two signed photographs
with photograph and description of the cement house model, which
I have forv/arded to Mr, Moyes and Nr. Findlay.
1910. Copyright (D-10-15)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
copyright matters involving Edison and his companies. Included are items
pertaining to copyright legislation, film scenarios, and recordings. There are
also letters concerning a copyright dispute involving the title of the film In the
Nick of Time produced by the Edison Manufacturing Co.
All of the documents have been selected except for two copies of a
typescript entitled "German Law Concerning the Copyright of Works of
Literature and Music."
[FROM GEORGE F. SCULL]
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^ Jan. 17, 1910.
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Ur. Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Btudio, Bedford Bark,,
Hew York, H.Y. "
Dear Ur. PI imp ton
I hand you herewith letter from J.F.
Cull i van in reference to a play called "In the Hick of
Time". Mr. Culli van's idea is to warn us against any poss¬
ible infringement. I v/ish that you would read the circu¬
lar carefully , because it strikes me as being a fine sample
of the 1C, 20 and 30 variety of "meller drararaar".
Yours very truly,
cre/Aiuc.
Eno.
Assistant to Vice-President,
EDISON MANUFACTURING CU.
> MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
f ORANGE, N.J.
EDISDl/p^nJECTING KIN ETII SCOPES AND FILMS.
£^Jfuimao CL&lbaiu ^ 10 Fifth Avenue, New York cable ai
Jan. 18, 191C
Mr. Geo. F. Scull, Assist, to Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
Orange , N. J.
My dear Mr. Scull:-
X have your letter of the 17th with enclosures.
Regarding "IF the MICK OF TIKE" , needless to say, the coincid¬
ence asAthe names in this case was entirely inadvertent on our
part. I do not know how we could possibly prevent occurrences
of this kind unless we have on hand a complete list of copy¬
righted plays, and I imagine such a list would he extremely
cumbersome.
As a matter of information, I should be glad
if you will tell me whether in such a case as this we are
liable.
i read the enclosures with great inter
I am returning them to you herewith.
Yours very truly,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
KinetographD^rfc. ,
RE/BB
Mgr. , Negative Production.
Mr, Horace G. Plimpton,
'Edison Studio-Bedford Park,
Hew York, il.Y.
Dear Mr. Plimpton:-'.
’'Yours of the ISth iruvt. with enclo¬
sures is at hand. Perhaps it is a commentary on jay fail-
t2Uju,
ure ^o note the detfeiie of our films, but when I sent
you letter of the 17th, 1 did not realize that we had
a film entitled "In the Mick of Time". It is probable
that the advertisement of this film was what prompted the
Amusement Company to notify us in reference to their
title.
In general, there oan be no such thing as a copy¬
right in a title only. This was decided in a case involv¬
ing t'ne novel "Trilby", in which the complainants attesept-
ed to enjoin not only the dramatizing of the novel, but
the use of the name "Trilby" as the title of the dramatic
composition. Judge Laeombe denied an injunction against
the mere use of the name "Trilby" as a title, stating that
"it is the name in connection with the novel, not the
name alone whioh the Copyright Law protects" .
Kr. Horace G. Plimpton.
ifz
it is possible, however, that we might be sued
for unfair competition in case we should get out a film
with the same title as a play, even though the film
story was entirely different from that of the pi r-y , You
v/ill appreciate that if a very popular play were running,
and another pity ware written and used the name of the
popular play, many people would be induced to attend the
performance of the nev,_ play through the advertising and
reputation of the original ploy, and the original ploy
owners would be injured to that extent. X hardly think,
however, that such a suit could be made to stick in £he
case of the some title being used for a film as a pity.
It will be well to avoid this, of course, whereever you
can, but obviously you have no means of knowing all of
the plays which may have been written or are being pro-
duced, ,It is. wholly immaterial whether such plays ore
copyrighted op not, so that a complete list of the copy-
righted, plays would be of no use to you.
- Yours very truly,
GI'G/'AHK.
Assistant to Vice-lreBident.
June 2, 1910.
Mr. Dyer
The attached form for copyright license appears
correct to me, though I note that while permission is given
to use sound reoords in any form whatsoever, the royalty
rates are fixed only for 36 cent records and 50 cent records.
It occurred to me that v/e may hereafter wish to list records
higher than this* 1 would suggest changing the first part of
Paragraph B to read:
"The Company hereby agrees to pay to the
publisher one cent royalty on all records sold at
35 cehts, and one and a half cents royalty on all
records sold at more than 35 cents."
G. F. Scull.
GFS/AHK.
Your letter, addressed to the Hon. Philander C. Knox, Secretary
of State, has hoen referred to this office for reply.
The proclamation to which you refer, of Oct. 31, 1892, extending
the provisions of the copyright law to the subjects of Italy, was followed
by a proclamation issued on the 9th day of April, 1910, a copy of which
is inclosed horewith.
You will' find, upon reference to the last line of the last para¬
graph, that it is distinctly stated that this proclamation entitles sub¬
jects of the countrios named, including Italy, to all the benefits of the
copyright Act of 1909, "other than the benefits under section 1(e) thereof,
as to which inquiry is still pending".
If it should be found, however, that the law of Italy does give
this protection to American citizens in Italy, then it would seem possible
that Italy would have a right to claim protection upon all musical works
issued in Italy, and the safe coir so to pursue would seem to be to seek
the permission of the composer for the privilege of making machine records.
Inclosure :
Proclamation.
C. F. Coffin, Esq.,
79 Fifth Avo.,
[ATTACHMENT!
o^JL,%iVa COPYRIGHT
By tjie President o
e United States op America
A ifruriamatum
Whereas it is provided by tho Act of Congress of March 4, 1909, entitled “An Act to nmond
and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” that tho bonofits of said Act, excepting tho benefits
under section 1 (a) thereof, as to which special conditions are imposed, shall extend to the work
of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation, only upon
certain conditions sot forth in section 8 of said Act, to wit: 1
(«) Whon an alien author or proprietor shall bo domiciled within tho United States at tho
time of tho first publication of his work; or
(i) Whon tbo foreign stato or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or
subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to oitizons of tho United States
the benefit of copyright on substantially tho same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright
protection substantially equal to tho protection secured to such foreign author under this Act or
by treaty; or when such foreign stato or nation is a party to an international agreement which
f reClpl'°0lty “ tho £rantinff of copyright, by tho terms of which agreement tho
United States may, nt its pleasure, become a party thereto:
And whereas it is also provided by said section that '“The existence of tho reciprocal
conditions aforesaid shall bo determined by tho President of tho United States, by proclamation
made from timo to time ns the purposes of this Act may require”:
And whereas satisfactory ovidenco has been received that in Austria, Belgium Chile Costa
Rma, Cuba, Denmark, Franco, Germany, Great Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the
Netherlands and possessions, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland tho law permits and
sinco duly 1, 1909, has permitted to citizens of the United States tho benefit of copyright on
substantially tho same basis as to citizens of those countries:
Now, therefore, I, William Howabd Tabt, President of tho United States of America, do
declare and proclaim that one of the alternative conditions specified in section 8, of tho Act of
March 4, 1909, is now fulfilled, and sinco July 1, 1909, has continuously been fulfilled, in respect
to tho citizens or subjects of Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa itica, Cuba, Denmark, Franco
Germany Great Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands and possessions!
Norway , Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland, and that the citizens or subjects of tho aforementioned
^countries are and sinco July 1, 1909, havo been ontitlod to all of tho bonofits of tho said Act other
than tho benefits under section 1 (<j) thereof, ns to which the inquiry is still pending.
3ltt ufeuiinumil Uljeronf, I have hereunto S(
United States to be affixed.
my hand nnd causod the seal of tho
Done at the city of Washington this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and ton, and of tho Independence of tho United States
of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth.
Tice* tuJUr
a
Wm. H. Taft.
[ATTACHMENT!
MEMORANDUM
Mr. W. H. Miller: l/l3/ll.
Please take note of the fact that by a proclamation
just issued by the President the provisions Of the Copyright Act
of March 4, 1909, now apply to subjects of Germany. In other
•words, a German composer now has the same right to protection
as an American composer.
PLD/IV/W F. 1. D. l-V/sl
1910. Edison, T.A. - General (D-10-16)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
a variety of subjects. Included are documents that deal with more than one
subject or that do not fall under the main subject categories in the Document
File. Among the items for 1910 are general expense reports for the Edison
companies; minutes of the companies' centralized Manufacturing Committee;
and a five-page report sent to Edison while he was vacationing in Fort Myers,
Florida. One letter acknowledges Edison's donation toward the erection of
a statue honoring the French author, the Comte de Villiers de I'lsle-Adam.
Another suggests a meeting between Edison and Wilbur Wright. There is
also a letter from Edison's sister-in-law, Alice Stilwell Holzer, announcing the
death of her husband, William Holzer. In addition, there are items pertaining
to Edison's interest in a hearing aid called the "acousticon" and documents
relating to his attendance at the convention of the Association of Edison
Illuminating Companies. Among the correspondents are Booker T.
Washington, Hudson Maxim, and Charles M. Schwab. There are also letters
from longtime Edison associates, including Herman E. Dick, William K. L.
Dickson, William J. Hammer, Edward H. Johnson, Thomas C. Martin, James
Ricalton, and Charles P. Steinmetz.
All of the documents have been selected.
organisation, we wound esteem it a very-
great honor if you could he here to attend
the banquet. I think it would he gratify¬
ing to you to see the class of men who are
engaged in this business, and I believe
you would have a good time.
In order to make seating arrangements
I shall be very thankful if, as soon as
you have reached your decision, you would
telegraph me. As you may know, it is really
only a night's ride from Hew York to Chicago.
Trusting we' may have the honor of your
presence, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Llewellyn Park,
Orange, H. J.
II.M.BYLi.Ksnv & Comivujy,
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dear Mr. Rdii
/J I am sending
_ you herewith f ormaluinvi-
ion to the convention of employes c/f
ourselves and our affiliated companies. V/e
have grown to be a large organization, and
our operations are spread through the middle
west, the south and the Pacific Coast, and
we find it a necessity to get our men to¬
gether periodically to exchange views and
generally further the interests which we
endeavor to serve.
He close with a banquet at the Audit¬
orium Annex on Friday evening January 7th.
There will be a number of prominent gentle¬
men present - Major-General ¥. I>. Grant,
Charles G. Hawes, now President of one of
the large banking institutions of this
city, formerly Comptroller of the Currency,
and a man very largely interested in gas
and electric companies throughout the
country, C. A. Coffin, Samuel Insull, A. J.
Karling, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railroad, and a number of others.
As we are all engaged in the business,
which in the broadest sense of the word,
you founded, speaking for myself and our
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Dear Mr. Edison:
January 3rd, 1910.
For a long time I have had
dreams of going to Chicago with you. She
opportunity now presents itself. Hr. E. H.
Byllesby is to give a notable dinner on
Friday the Seventh instant. 1 am going
out on the Twentieth Century limited on
Thursday in order to be present. X!q shall
meet many of our old friends and some new.
Cannot you accompany me?
If it is impossible for you to
do so, a telegram or a letter from you
would be received with great satisfaction
and pleasure by Hr. Byllesby. but do try
and go. Please have one- of your boys
telegraph me on receipt of this.
C-E
Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
• ' Orange, E.J,
Cordially ^ouys,
iyfeOlP WIENINQkER*
him I mentioned the ate rage of power from windmills 4u iuw .ana iu> Said hu
uud coon unwed wo ouy t v. .. Aj;or ic uh pavuiibs for Ilia BosaiiuUiv-., dynamo thaw Lum
2»<i3 .tram lighting on ilio .continent such a great success . . It is equally g^od
for wne windmill ..rcbiem . and Le is la.: in;' It up with my for that purpose. Is
is the only thing I had no t 'arranged for before leaving to unable that test
to begin and had not boon able to find just the niohinc. I wished for this work.
Hope to be able to gat amacfeino s«nt over from this' side and If. that can bo
arranged shall get it in placo ah neon as. I a. rive.
Mr. Bote ford Mentioned a Be’/enoratiag primary battery, that has
boon developed in Budapest and told mo. to Bo-a it if possible and it looks now
no if I should go to Budapest and if so shill .be .pleased to uoe.what.it is and
will advise you if you bo wish.
Spent quite a little time with Mr. 2o is ford and ,ro visited
the installations of the train lighting that they have on so many of the
largest railroad systems horo and they certainly Lave the supply and regulation
oi eiocvric lighting from the .car aaer down to a very eiupiw and cumpuo t
dovico. All that they have will apply to the windmill problem and have procur'd
a large .amount of data from . them. They wore .interested in the ww battery
and if you care to solid they any new ill forma lion . I know it will be groatfuily
received. They are using lead colls at present.
In case you c are to sent any dwsepritivo matter if it is sent
To the des ell sc ha ft fur lilektrische Hugh el auditing iu,b. H. Luis on Straaso 36
attention ftr. M. imttner it will reach the right mad. gl ease mention my name.
In ease. you should wish to communicate with mo or Mr.
Botsforri in relation to any of tliosu matters you can •address me at 6 Princes St
London E. C. % Chaplin Milne.. Grenfell -Co. as I plan to return that way and
shall be phero .about the 20 of ihi3 month.
With kind regards, I rtmaiu.
Dear Sir,
Sincerely
rours ,
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
T1?LE PHONES | 2,85 1,AanlBON
Hr. Thoinas A. Edison,
Honorary Member G. E. Outing Club,
Llewellyn Park, V/est Orange, IT. J.
Lear Sir:
It becomes the sad duty of the writer to inform
you of the death on Dec. 31, 1909 in Bermuda, of our
highly honored and esteemed fellov/ member,
Mr. John Trumbull Marshall.
Very respectfully yours,
Secretary ^
G. E. Outing Club,
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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
_ EDISON LAMP
Ur. C-. A. Keister,
Assistant - , Secretary,
Laboratory Thomas A. Edison, Orange , II. J.
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
four o'clock the same day.
This is about all we have in the way of detail at the
present time.
I believe that in addition to his heart trouble
Mr. Marshall was suffering from frights desease.
Memorial service is to be heldin the Presbyterian
Church at Miuchen, Hew Jersey, this coming Sunday Evening
at 8:00 o'clock. Many of the heads of the Departments
and Officers of our Company are expecting to attend these
services.
Any additional information that I can give I will be
very glad to furnish.
Yours very truly,
Secretary,
G. E. Outing Club.
Clubs
I beg now to ml vino you also, an a member of the dinner oom-
mittee of the Institute, that it has been arranged to give the Annual
Dinner on February 34 at the Hotel Astnr, probably in the now g-and ball¬
room. Prof, filihu Thomson is to bo the Ouest of Honor in recognition
of the award of the Edison Medal to him, and I think we shall have an
admirable function.
I bog to say, on behalf of the Institute offioora and the Dinner
Committee, that wo should be delighted if you could be with us; but I have
understood from Mrs* Edison that you are going south on February 1st. In
this event we shall bo glad if you can let us have for that occasion some¬
thing nice and appropriate in the way of a dispatch to Thompson and the In¬
stitute, and if I can be of any use to you in this connection please call
Since I was at your house I ha -e looked up the Bailey automobile,
as you suggested, and am very much struck with the general excellence of
the latest typos. What pleases me more particularly is to find the motors
wound for low voltage, so that the Edison battery gets a fair show,
whioh it
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Menlo Park, M. J.
Dear Sir:-
We understand, right ly'-W wrongly, that you are giving
attention to the subject of automatic vending, and that you
are constructing a machine for dispensing coal; and furthermore
that you have in contemplation the automatic selling of vegetables.
We have been in the automatic vending business for
the past 15 years, during which time we hade had opportunity
to make observations and collect data which may be useful to
you.
We are convinced that automatic vending will prove
a boon to humanity and we feel greatly encouraged whenever
we learn that our belief is shared by men of ability.
If we can be of any service to you, we shall be glad to answer
any questions as to our experience, etc.
Yours respectfully
JAEGER AUTOMATIC MACHINE CO. ;
[JANUARY 24, 1910]
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WASHINGTON. D. c. Jan, 27th, 1910,
Ur. Thos. A, Edii
Orange, N. .
Dear Mr, 3dison;
received your letter of Dec, 29th and want t'o thank youj;for, V,.
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it costs us $6.00 per ton to „ L-
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your encouragement of my idea,
land coal at homes of our members
an 8 1/4$ profit on which
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bers, we have just about paid expen!
conducting the local end o£~the
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can increase membership materially. jt-lu/J*) O' j
Sine, wrlllne you I „„ o&tyuZjfcM oFjptSS&T/C 1
again and am greatly interested in the! cement house diseription^and ^
what it seems to mean for the future,^] 2£ ‘ er><"
1 telieve I could organize such a combination as you dtferibe ’
to take up the building of these houses, and if you are considering
Placing exclusive territory to companies who will buy the molds, I
would like an option for a certain time in which to organize, for
the District of Columbia and say a radius of five miles outside.
This of course may be premature, but I take the liberty of
requesting your consideration in the matter.
Again thanking you for your letter I am
Yours very tj
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Orange, N.J.
Dear Mr. Edison:
I have, with Mrs. Eels, lately cot4
here on one of our usual visits to America, l _ _ _
you may remember, I spend much of my time./x I have t
rather odd favor to ask of you.
corip aero
>a. Where,
Mrs. Fels and I are greatly interested in
a young violinist, a Russian, Efrem Zimbalist, a young-
lad who is destined to be a famous man. Zimbalist is
one of our family whenever he is in London.
Just before we sailed from the other side,
the boy begged us to get from you the largest photograph
you have had taken and to ask to do him the great favor
to inscribe the photograph to him from yourself.
Ever since we have known him he has been want¬
ing that photograph. If you have not a large one at the
moment, let me know where I may get one, and I will send
it to you for the inscription.
Mrs. Eels and I wish very much to take the
boy what he wants.
Believe me,
Ur. H. F. Miller, Soc’y.,
Thos. A. Edison, Eoq.,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Sir:-
I duly received your favor 9th instant
referring to mine of the day before, in which X aakod
for Mr. Edison’s photograph in duplicate, and note,
from what you write me, that he is in Florida and will
not be back before the middle of April. Before then
I will return to England and I write to ask you to very
kindly call Mr. Edison* b attention to the matter, when
ho gets back, and see that hia pictures are sent me.
It is a sentiment on my part, to be sure, and yet Mr.
Edison is thought a great deal of on the other side.
Believe me.
Very truly youri
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Following are the .reports
of experiments, finished, or in the course
of completion, under rty supervision.
Business Phonograph.
JfbW style top plate to
accomodate the’ pneumatic foot trip, finished;
J&yyud. two over to Mr. Weber ready to manufacture. .
A device to throw off the electric current
switch when Closing the cover of phonograph.
Am making up si* more for testing purposes*
working on a ndw style of recorder, one model
finished, and results so far obtained are
very ^satisfactory; in faot, far superior to
any thing We have had. The sapphire atm is of
a much stronger construction, and so arranged
that a possessor of this recorder can take
out old diaphragm and replace by new one,
without sending the recorder back to the
factory. This arm also makes a better holder
for the sapphire.
Changed the binding posts on top
of top plates and bit resistance*, arranged them
so that it is impossible to get a shock or
Short circuit it, and to accomodate our fiat
or round tip# Am making up a complete model
*6* phonograph, showing ail the changes that
were made within the last six months. Wade a
test «X different lubricant#, to be used on
pneumatic- foot trip and found and recommended
that twenty per ceftt of deflocculated graphite
and eighty per cent of White vaseline fulfilled
all the conditions. This lubricant is now
being put in all our pneumatic foot trips* .
Made a test and comparison between
ours and dther competitors hearing tubes and
find that . our hearing tubes are far superior
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to anythin* on the market. Tested and am
now making drawings for a new way-rail for
hearing tubee for school outfit. This rubber
way- rail will supercede our present metallic
way-rail, thereby making a much cheaper and
better one.
Working on a device that will do
away with our present horn crane. This device
will carry the horn and is attached to the
reproducer arm.
Schemed out a cabinet for the
shaving machine, and alBo one for the business
phonograph; and just aB soon as our other
steel cabinets , that are now being made, are
finished, will have these made up-. I think
they will cost about $1.10 apiece. An outside
manufacturer of this , cabinet thought it would
cost about $3.50 or $4.00 apiece to make them.
One model of Universal shaving machine finished,
but will make a few changes, thereby bringing
the cost down to our present Bhaving machine,
but having a mu* better outfit.
3 -
Miscellaneous.
Drawings for the Caustic
Soda grinding machine finished. Castings,
are now being machined by Mr. Bachman and
the phonograph works tool room. Platform
for the above machine is being made by an
outside concern. ■
Drawings for the new style
Record Moulding machine drums finished.
Patterns gone to the foundry. Some steel rings
were case hardened by the American Gas. Furnace
Company at a cost of $6.00 apiece, but we now
have a manufacturer who will case harden them
for us at a cost of 49 cents apiece. Will Bend
sixty rings to them this weeh to be case
hardened.
One model of the Metal Record
Cabinet will be finished by Mr. Bachman this
week, and will Bend you photograph of same,
but I have three other types to be gone on
with.
Phonograph Klnetosoope .
Drawing for the ten and
one half Inch and twelve and one half Inch
masters mould and plate, finished. The ten
and one half inch moulds were machined and
finished hy Mr. Bachman and turned over to
Mr. Aitken- The twelve and one half inch
castings and plates are in the works at present.
Master copper plating and nickel
plating machine drawings and patterns finished#
Castings are now being machined by Mr. John
Apparatus for mixing the dope
necessary in the manufacture of records,
drawings finished, and blue-prints sent out
for estimates. Am at present designing a
recording and shaving machine. Am designing
a gold plating machine. Designed a couple
different styles of Spring Motors. Drawings
for patterns sent to. pattern department, some
of the parts are now being machined in shop.
Will start on Horns and Reproducers
next week. Designed a cooling table, necessary
to manufacture the phonograph kinetoscope
record. (Have schemed out" the rtTflF '
"to make both metal rings. Schemed out machine
for making the inner paper ring. Will be able
to make drawings of the above in a very short
time. - - - - - 1 - ..
Will start to make drawings for
/ automatic machines for making the paper tubes,
probably the end of next week.
SdiBon-leligid Battery..
. ... _ Changed the wing nuts
holding elemente bo that it la possible to
put in a jumper without any inconvenience.
Am at preeent designing an element that can
be put in our competitors cells. Am enclosing
a free hand eke toil of one of the schemes
for holding the new style perforated steel-
copper oxide basket, using a wire frame to
support same; but. I have six other schemes
that I will go ahead with, juet ae soon as we
receive our material that is now on order.
Yours very truly,
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the Chronicle at the tine. Yon suggested that the chemical qualities
of sagebrush l-c investigated. I published the interview and finally
the chemist 3 have become busy.
I enclose some fun which the Hews poked at me and also where they
make the amend honorable. Thinking it might interest you I enclose
them. My brother is tho Editor of Munsays Magas ine. Bob Davis.
He suggested that I send you the clippings. I know Louis Glass and
am still a close friend of his .dispite his troubles.Ke did not squeal
on men higher up and they snerifised hira.He is still to game to squeal
and has been granted n new trial.
I have fuller reports regarding tho sagebrush distillation and am
trying to float a Co. Possibly you might recommend some one who might
like td investigate it. ( _
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W^K-L. DICKSON,
ELECTRICAL* MECHANICAL ENCINEER.
4, DENMAN STREET,
PICCADILLY CIRCUS,
LON DON, W.
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which may into rest yoi
April 15th, 1910.
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L/ O^umJSM stf»va«v
It is on aiipliavico for nseVJbn electric
Lclos for hrahing anil starting tho i
v* v .
--gy is retained in a spring of highly peculiar andv ingenious
)r that
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construction in
cd ana us ml both to huilil up
of tho motor anil start the vehicle,
actions are a comb
a novel nnnner. I cannot help hut thin!: we!
tion, and so do several exports in this line
have roporte" upon it .
the pov/^r~BO secured ij^re
counter- electromotive fore*
Both brabiW o^id stariiiigu . ■ ^
d-tOtS. (se. e,«> «?""■* V te'gs,
ition of oloctro-mochunical actions used in
It is claimed to effect an economy of EJVjj in tho hat-
tori' current used, where traffic is congested, on road vehicles
and morn on street cars .
Tho inventor also has for use with this apparatus a
system of regenerative control superior to the Vendrine and a
system of chain driving which seams most excellent, and as far
4, DENMAN STREET,
W^K-L . DlGKSO N ,
ELECTRICAL* MECHANICAL ENCINEER.
(2)
PICCADILLY CIRCUS,
LON DON, W.
I have seen let to its both from B&rgmann and the Ameri-
oun General Electric Go., offering to take up these Indent ions
hut if yon can yet ahead of then, the price will he lower.
I believe tho natter is of so much i nportnnce that
yon ought to ileal with it first hand, and 1 take the liberty of
suggesting that yon have me send the inventor over to show you
the details. I can yet an option for six months to purchase
tho invention on royalty, or for cash as you may arrange, if
found satisfactory. He asks £150^ this to include his time and
expenses to Hew York .
If you will wire mo I will get the papers all right
if yon provide the funds for them.
I an delighted to know that you have completed your
great work so successfully, and I have only called your attention
to this matter as it looks good enough to merit your careful
consideration and also because I think it a distinct advance
over anything I have seen on this side.
Should you oahlo me "Arrange with Marks" I shall under¬
stand that I am to give him a properly executed option and send
the inventor over, showing Marks a copy of this letter in con-
firmatii
V/ith kindest regards.
Yours sincerely,
* Aut omat s ,
Jaeger Automatic
Machine Company
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. ^ yyr
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
.. — AEril.19.th . .
Orange, N. J. ' " -Wr-fi - ‘ ‘
Dear Sirs- ' ] ^ ^ /C .o~ * ^
Under date of January 24th last we wrote you concerning
automatic selling of coal and vegetables. Your answer dated January 26th
arranged for an interview on this matter and we came over to see you on
January 27th.
The sections for selling the articles you mentioned could
be constructed, we believe, well within $200 per section, but we would
suggest *200 as a safe basis to figure on, especially in the beginning.
Much depends on the finish, which we suppose is not to be elaborate.
As we understand there are to be 8 or 9 sections, the total cost for
equipment would be from $1500 to $2000, but it is not likely that the
cost would be anywhere near $2000 after the first equipment had been
installed and the whole proposition became a regular manufacturing one.
Arrangements could be made to have the automat built under
your constant supervision both as to mechanical details and actual cost
of material and labor. With the actual, vouched for, costs before
you, with an addition of 33-1/3# for overhead charges, and, on that,
15# for contingencies and profit, the cost of the equipment would be
in your control. we think the percentages for overhead, contingencies
and profit are quite reasonable.
2- •
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, W.J.
The question of patent rights we would endeavor to handle in
such a way that no complications could or would arise. This matter
requires careful attention and we are willing to act on the defensive
with you against such trouble. We see no such trouble ahead, but will
prepare for it, nevertheless.
We are at your service at all times for the further discussion
of this subject.
Yours very truly
JAEOER AUTOMATIC MACHINE 00?!? ANY.
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My dear Mr. Edison:- /'
Mr. John Y/anomaker desiras me to present his
compliments and to say that he would he delighted to have you
call at any time, either in this city or in New York.
As I wrote you, he spends only one day each
week (?tonday) at the Philadelphia store, and five days at the
New York establishment.
If you find it more convenient to call over
there sometime when you are in that city, by all means do so.
But whatever may suit your convenience to do, please do not let
it deprive us of the pleasure of a visit from you sometime when
you are in Philadelphia.
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Whitestone, N. Y, , May 4th Cj (g|0>
I take the liberty of enclosing you a descriptive
circular setting forth many of the princiinsl features of my forth¬
coming book - "Fifty Years in Theatrical Management". I am writing
a little story of our first meeting in the jarly 60* s when you. were
in the Western Union office in State Street^aWcTI at the time -beginn¬
ing my active career as a manager, which in 4fter years is history,
as far as mammoth theatrical plunging is concerned. I alsp remember
our meeting in the Drug store opposite the Grand Central station,
which must have been twenty years or more after our first/meeting.
Do you remember the incident .’when we recognized each oth/r, When I
said to you that I had watched your career, you, in reply, reiterated
the same, that you had watched mine. I have written u# quite a very
interesting sketch of the abov^ and of yourself, of y/ur wonderful
and remarkable career, so I would kindlyvaak you to jfavor me with
your photograph and a little biographical data of y/Surself. I am
receiving the same from many of the celebrities inland out of the
profession from all parts of the world and I can .truthfully assert
that my book will be the most interesting and complete of any ever
issued of the amusement world during the half century that I was so
actively engaged therein, and I am pleased to/have the opportunity
to add your good self among the list. /
I trust you will comply with my wishes and forward
the data as desired at your earliest convenience.
Hoping this will find'' you in the best, of health
and with my kind regards and best wishes.
Very truly yours.
/.
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FIFTY YEARS IN
THEATRICAL
MANAGEMENT
By M. B. LEAVITT
A t ohmic of history, reminiscence and anecdote, comprising some 400 pages, with aliont 200
I it lixperiences, impressions ai l|c.soi I opimons V ,1 of interest and
11 L 1 11 I ofL s I H c , 1 1 1 I tlientic 1 story and biography. A
delightful storehouse of stage memories. 1’iquantly expressed reflections of old and
ne \ triends All subjects treated intelligently, faithfully and fearlessly, l'raise
not governed by partiality or censure by pique. Personal character depicted truthfully,
credit a" aided and criticism just. Brief biographies of the men of the hour The
iih sh’pZl n°‘ T-'L‘at "em’“ l° histo,!,,ns’ interesting, important and finely
illnsti.ited publication, covering all branches of the amusement world.
„„ JjT Sil‘: , 1,Sl,0,;!ly isS"C ? Voh,me ol‘ somc 400 P!*«es, illustrated with about 200
caietullj executed hall tone portraits of notable men and women with many of whom I
r=^“"-T "l Vi"10US t""eS duri,,S "V lmlf century of theatrical management,
I I 1 1 1 )’ e 1 tl tic lose t l ,’orld not alone covered the span
t ?rt l,fet"”c> but ™ «ith the largest activities, and I believe my book will
to trcid UP°n IS 111 lnt""ate llSlOI'y of thc theatre ‘luring the time of which it is proposed
This publication will be called “Fifty Years in Theatrical Management,” and its
the toUd collecdo!""0 * g''the''e<1 through the following headings, chosen at random from
scale 11 Fiff. "nd T"' *1“ °! °'‘iginil1 ^“P of '‘lanagers on . i ,th
scale Inst to systematize the business, and on a commercial basis.— The beginning of
he theatrical circuit system in America, and how and by whom it was developed -How
trom'wh H PT"1 1’l,“triC"1 ^n,l,'“le lcarne<1 tlle ^stem of centra I iiation, and
,t l T'T T ,gK, 11 "1,,ge,s °r to(li,-V l)egi,n- — -The precise history of the revo¬
lution ,n theatricals and what it has produced.— How the Independent movement started
and where ,t stands.-Review of the booking system of other days as compared with present
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methods. — Which ol these may l>e regarded as most heuefieial to producing managers and
public.' — A lifetime devoted to the amusement business. — The difference between so-
called managers and showmen. — A critical analysis ol managers and management today. —
Why managers seek to overreach one another.— When the three Frohmnn brothers, Daniel,
Charles and Gustave, first entered theatrical management.— Who is the Captain General of
the show world today? — The great and nearly great of the past and present, and their
business methods.— The commercialism of the theatre at the present time—' Theatrical
tricks exposed and honorable methods endorsed.— How competition was stifled and monop¬
oly built up.— The original purpose of the Theatrical Syndicate and the change ol' policy.
-He oiB, ,hn I n ° th of Klav & Erlangc. -Nixon & Zimmerman’s alliance
wdh the Syndicate. How the Shnl.ert hoys, Lee and J. J., attained their present high posi¬
tion— The Theatrical and Independent Syndicates analysed— Is the show business' as well
conducted today as formerly ?— The “live and let live” principle of the past— The man¬
agers who received their first theatrical training in the “ Leavitt School.”— Famous men
and women who rose to fame through the author’s efforts— The pioneer in all new fields
ol amusement— Successful stars and attractions of the “palmy days.”— Establishin
,,,, . ' . , - : uienmcai mismess— l. lie i\ew
I fica tie, its aims and ])ossihihties— George C. Tyler’s remarkable career— The
long and useful life of William Harris, who is unchanged by success— How Cohan &
Harris have become a factor in the modern show world— Felix Isman’s rise from a small
beginning in real estate to a great power in theatricals— Where Denman Thompson
acquired Joshua Whitcomb.”— The theatrical clubs of New York and London—
The younger managers who are making theatrical history— Henry B. Harris among the
most prolific producers— Daniel Frolunan the legitimate successor in art to Augustin
Daly. — Male and female “ headliners ” of Musical Comedy and Vaudeville.
American and European favorites of grand opera. —Leading male and female
Dramatic stars of the American and English stage— The early traveling shows and
managers of the 50s and ’60s. — Personal observations of notable foreign managers, such
as Sir Charles Wvndham, George Edwardes, Oswald Stoll, Alfred 11101, Arthur Collins
icorge Alexander, Frank Curzon, W. W. Kelly, etc— A comparison of the theatres of New
1 ork and London. 1 he personalities of the dramatic and musical critics of England
and America. I lie actor-managers of America and England,.
The financial aid rendered by Henry F. Gillig to Americans in London— Intimate
anecdotes concerning George W Lederer, Marcus 11. Mayer, Charles Burnham, David
Belasco, Harrison Grey I- iske Wmgenhals & Kemper, Hyde & Behn.an, Brooks &
I), cl, son, Ilarngan & Iart, J II Ilaverly, Tony Pastor, Henry C. Miner, Frank McKee,
M.uk A. Leuscher Henry B Harris, John Ringling, W. W. Cole, Oscar Ilammerstein,
Max Andeison, C. B. Dillingham, Percy W illiams, W’cber & Fields, Henry Greenwall
George C lyler Gustave Lnders, Stair & Havlin, Hudson & Judah, A. W. Dingwall,’
Miti ;Vl ra|?’ p ( - 'Vh‘try’ Thom“ W- Will J. Davis, Edward E. ttice,
M.tteiithal Bros 1-reder.c 1 hompson, L. M. Crawford, John Cort, J. J. Gottlob,
, . ' . S’ ™'1 scores ot °tlle,s >»et during the worldwide travelings of the author
Prominent players in lighter vein who had their first sta
mg Marie Halton, Louise Montague, Anne Sutherland, Emin
llioinas, Pauline Hall, May Howard, Leonora Bradley
Emmett, May Ten Broeck, Anna Caldwell, Louise Iloyee
rt from the writer, includ-
a Cams, Anna Boyd, Hilda
Bessie Cleveland, Katie
Louise Allen, Hattie Grin-
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noil, Mabel Santley, etc., ole. — The final tours of Mile. Ainiee, Maggie Mitchell, Mrs.
.. A\ illiam J. Florence, ami Margaret Mather, which were under the management of the
author. — Ilis last meeting with Lydia Thompson and Selina Dolaro. — When tV. S. Stratton,
the discoverer of the famous independence gold mine, was n stage carpenter. — When
A. S. Trade, Chicago’s leading criminal lawyer, was in the show business with the author.
— -Mow the author “discovered” Yvette (iuilhert. — The laic John W. Mackay’s solitude
on the ocean liners.— When the late James (J. Blaine, then an editor in Maine, told the
author to write his own notice. — Mow the writer made the acquaintance of the late (2 raver
Cleveland. — Mow Kossuth patted the author on the head when a schoolboy. — Incidents
relating to Thomas A. Edison, Henry M. Stanley, Barney Barnato, etc. — When David
Warfield was a theatre usher for the writer. — Mow the late Charles If. Hoyt secured his
first opportunity. — -The author’s business association with A1 Ifayman, now the head
of the Theatrical Syndicate. — The first European trip of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and
how it was brought about. — -Where and when the well-known author, George If. Broad-
hurst, was “discovered,” and by whom. — Mow Louis Mann won a charming wile.—
The author’s first business transaction with Edwin Ilawlev, the railway magnate. —
When George Gould first crossed the Atlantic. — Former judge A. J. Dittenhocfer’s
initial experiences in theatrical law. — William A. Brady’s first lesson in making contracts.
— Oscar Hanuncrstein. a Napoleonic figure in theatre building and management of opera.
— Henry W. Savage’s leadership in the highest class of musical and dramatic productions.
When the author managed the only trans-continental tour of Sir Charles Wyndham,
paying him 83,500 a week and all advertising and railway expenses. — The original theatrical
circuit in Mexico, where the author introduced from Spain Trinidad Cuenca, the first
woman bull fighter ever seen there. — The early contracts between the writer and Charles
Frolunan, the greatest producer of the age. — Over production in every branch, over
supply of actors and actresses, and the cause. — Men who began m theatricals but entered
other fields and made fortunes, such as Frank L. Gardner, Davison Dalzicl, M.P., Charles
E. Locke. Jacob Nunnemachcr, J. Charles Davis. Henry B. Clifford, J. M. Hill, W. W.
Cole, Kit Clarke, etc., etc. — How the business was conducted by such old-time managers
as lb E. J. Miles, David Bidwcll, C. J. Whitney, Charles Spaulding, Leonard Grover,
J. II. Havcrlv, lb M. Iloolcy, Thomas W. Davcy, George J. Deagle, George K. Goodwin,
John Stetson. John Dull'. Meecli Brothers. John W. Albaugh, Bernard McAulcy, Thomas
Maguire, A. M. Palmer, Henry E. Abbey, Eugene Tompkins, John A. Hamlin, Augustin
Duly, Samuel Colville. Isaac B. Rich, John A. Ellsler, Ben Do Bar, JolinT. Ford, Henry C.
Miner, David Henderson, Col. W. E.Sinn, Jarrctt & Palmer, Maurice G nut, John W. Norton,
E. G. Gilmore, Jacob Litt, William Henderson, — -with all of whom the author had the pleas¬
ure of extended business and personal relations. — The aid received by many new beginners
at the hands of the author; both managers and performers. — Great advance made in the art
of costuming, and some of the leaders in that line. — The development of scene painting to its
present perfection, and a few of the foremost artists. — The exact situation in vaudeville, and
the great rivalry between the two powerful syndicates.— Why “Advanced Vaudeville”
failed. — -Personal views of Percy Williams, B. F. Keith, F. F. Proctor, E. F. Albee, William
Hanuncrstein, Martin Beck, William Morris, Morris Myerfeld, Jr., S. Z. Poli, Alex.
Pontages, Max Anderson, Kohl, Castle & Middleton, Frank Tate, Harry Davis, etc. A
comparison between English music halls and American vaudeville. — The recent inter¬
national deal between Messrs. Beck and Butt. — How the great Orphcum circuit was born
and developed. — The lesson William Morris learned from “Advanced Vaudeville,” which
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'“!.[? his ■Jr"1 P< S V " lc' 1 " k "l ' In-si<le history of the Keith-Proelor-
\\ Illiiiius-Il eslci S idiculc. Progress of the Moving Picture- Vaudeville craze; _
Ismail, Loew, William Fox and Lubin its head promoters.— Why the services of
vaudeville „ l under present Its are beneficial to artists.— While Rats accom¬
plishing K,-eat results for performers.— Rapid rise of Sullivan & Kraus and Sullivan &
I onsiclinc as showmen.
NeKroMinslrclsyfro,,, the advent of T. I). (Daddy) Rice to Ilaverly’s Mastodons.
IIoolc\ A Kmerson s Megatheriums, M. R. Leavitt’s Giganteims, 'I'hatcher Primrose &
Uest. Sweatnam. Rice & Pagan, Lew Dockstailer. Al. G. Fields an, I George Uvans
C ohan A Harris Minstrels.— Dumont’s Minstrels, in Philadelphia, the only surviving
show ot this kind with a permanent home. ’ »
How modern I, urles(pie may again become popular on Hroadway as it was tliirty-
I V "S 11,1 "Mlu * <lireclion. What the Columbia Amusement Company
l,i,S l<> rf\ . . C;„h Hill a very important factor.-Weber & Rush
* ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 I — Hurtig & Sea moil solid elements in the
association.— Men prominent in the Western Rurles.pie Whcel.-Pantomime and
Cfcr,,m£ffeu,\ 11 hT''" Ri,yCm. L’ Po*- tlle Hanlons, Tony
Dune,, Mdlelt A Bartholomew, The Devil’s Auction” and “Spider and
11>. -Leading magicians. Iron, McAllister, Anderson, Allyne, Marts and Heller,
to nerrmann, Kellar, I hurslon, and LeRo.y, Pox & Powell (the author’s Triple
m hh l'T 'V ,°Pm0,\t. °‘ n"Uv>'> ll'i,llfil,ol'hition. — Wonderful strides in litho-
: P ' g " 1,1 Bl,7 ]*■•"• '"S— Vast sums spent in this line by Haverly and the author.-
' "<!™,CCl1 '5 1 ,c l,,lter lo '>".V «»«* Metropolitan Print from James Gordon
Ik," ett— J he great orders that changed the Strohridge concern f, , , eon,, cm I , inters
^s^ed en pV "Uthor 1 Al‘ «t-art’s promotion as ,'ge of
'I he managers of South Africa. India, Australia and New Zealand, as seen by the
author, among them , J. C. Williamson, George Musgrove, Bland Holt, William Anders,,,,
Johil'pulici clc‘V,,e ’t ,C ",1L‘cl0l'S’ Lcona,'d Hayne, Harry Rickards, James Brennan.’
RiceTff AW.r'c ‘rM,"l,p Pri'"ilir^S °f Spm,l,li,'« & Rogers, Van Amberg, Dan
r u n, V I ' • kostcllo, h orepnugh, Coup, o, al., to Sells-Floto, Hagenback-Wallace,
Bai m. m A Bailey and the Ring. mg Brothers, now monarchs of the tent show realm
ties of'dcnl'lL',1;'8 P|'rT"" l° 1 “ St!,”L‘ 1,10 l,0oli wil1 1,0 «»'„plctc. showing the personali-
mess rci, rcson I i'"" l)l'°"i'>ters, players, authors, composers, producers.
pic.ss i cpitsen tallies, and the collateral business men associated with theatricals
I believe '"'mhaT ,,,Ml '’l'1"0 °f lh“ V<>IT? to li,,raric*- rooms and individuals,
J bchc\ e, \\ ill be iciy great, on account ol the immense mass of authoritative information
I ::;'! ,tS W,M e ,,,uc 1 ‘-‘''“""cut of the lighter kind will be derived from the large
’ oi >M:ls‘>nil1 with which it is enlivened. 1 have spent two years in col-
Ll “Viril “rn,,,S"lS »0"’ 11,11 completing the actual composition oi' the book.
fed.",: ;;sS
, truly
“Becchhurst,” Whitestone, N. Y.
prietor of the hew York world, has in¬
structed me to see you personally on a
business proposition. Will you kindly
let me know what day and what hour will
be most convenient for you to see me?
*
i very truly,
Acting Managing Editor.
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©©RffiTOAlfEE) PAPER AH© PAPER? SPEeiALTIIESo
Mr. Thomas A. Edisc
Dear Mr. Edison: -
BROOKLYN, May - lilo Vv
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An old friend of yours, Mr. Joseph E. Hind£ who lives
when at home, in Pasadena, California, is here with his family
on a short visit. You will probably remember Mr. Hind./ as one
of your enthusiastic friends when you were struggling with the
incandescent light.
like above all things, to shake hands with you once more, and
asks me if 1 think it possible for you to give him a few minutes
of your time, that he would go over to see you. I write this to
ask you if it will be agreeable to have him call. It may be that
I can go over with him Borne afternoon next week.
Kindly let me know, and oblige.
AJ pc.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAP
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1310 present, in fact until you again take the ^AY }q ,Q.
matter 151 with me and advised to the contrary, you will oleaae ” u'0
SSmL^tSS.°Lai1vkl,'ao “} “““'ISA SSESiSt
quantities possible to take care of our actual reouirRmpn+n
jfP ’?0 °aae are you to anticipate requirements for\ longer period
th^ diffDVBnn«t^«,+?nd £r?m t5at down t0 the smartest time possible,
t^kes1^ nb+afr,1^^1110 b+15f dependent on the length of time it
takes to obtain different kinds of raw material *
. 'Iou should go over your stock of parts finished, in work
will T'L+at0r^a+iJ to determine ^U0t how l°ng our present supply
a?d 1:11611 arranse to place your orders accordingly.
In orrtfirld ?S° "*2“^ to held>uP shipments of all material now
no ^d i Where v/e have a sufficient supply in stock to carry
£ainr!?J;W0.,WetkS t*vthfee “onthaf the time in this caBe again
h®lnS dependent on the length of time it .takes to procure the
raw material after placing shipping orders for it.
It may be found that you have a large stock of certain
nnfnf+iteel> ^ass or other raw material, which by an additional
operation, such as turning down or whatever it might be. would
^?«n6bnto^P'ir5OSeTfOB which additional raw material would other-
Tf®6 0 d!red* +In Quch °aseB> arrange to have the additional
ons done at as small a cost as possible, . instead of buying
now raw material of the proper size* * J 6
-J11!®6 instructions apply to all material pertaining to the
manufacture of phonographs, kinetosoopes and Bates machines,
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C. H. Wilson.
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SAMUEL INSULL, Cu
CHAIiLES L. EE
Committee 1909-1910
CHARLES «. nUNTLEY (Kx-Offlolo), Bum
LOUIS A. KEHGUSON (Ex-Offlelo),
N.T. WILCOX (Ex-Om
Mr. Thomas A. Edisonj
Orange ,
Dear Sir:
s\ new york May 19 f 1910.
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I beg to advise ybu that yo\m Executive Committee-
has arranged to hold the next convention of the? Associati,onK
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at the Hotel Frontenac, Thousand Island^, September 6-9,
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1910, opening Tuesday morning, September 6th ijt 9:3o£aAplookv^/
You will, in due course, reoeive further notice giviiig de¬
tails concerning the assignment of rooms, prograjn,and other
matters. J . - " — 7
i pleasure to be favored with any
l' give i
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sjiggestions that you may be kind enough to offer in regard
to subjects for papers or discussions to be brought before
the meeting. If you will kindly volunteer the presentation
of a paper yourself or from any of the representatives of
your Company, I will be glad to reoeive your advices to that
effect .
Bespeaking your co-operation towards making the
convention a success, I am,
Yours very truly,
Lt\^u, uu) fj. iitiUvX^ai,
President!.
have the benefit of your views.
\7e have discovered a new photo¬
grapher. You may remember that
your last photograph, taken at our
request, was such a success that there
ho 3 been a constant demand for it from
all over the World. Could you spare
an afternoon, during the first woolc in
Juno, to lot this photographer, who
is said to be a wonderful woman in that
work, try to get another good picture.
Could you come in a little early per¬
haps wo might be able to arrange for
the Ball Game.
Very sincerely.
P.S. I am to spend next week in St.
Louis at the Kational Electric Light
Association Convention. Ur. Murray is
very anxious to have you attend the
Edison meeting at The Frontenac during
the first we ok in September.
(Enclosure )
the photographs that were ta¬
ken during your very pleasant
visit at these offices. I
am also sending you under
another cover a collection of
our Hudson-Fulton photographs.
This I hope you - "as the au¬
thor of it all" - will accept
with the complimonts of our
Company.
Hr Liob, on returning
from his last visit, mentioned
that you referred to our Brief
on the Bankers Trust Building.
He spoke of some suggestions
you were going to offer. ThiB
is an illustration of the end¬
less fight that is going on all
over the country between Cen¬
tral Station and Private Plant
service. I hope if you can
spare the time you vail let me
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Messrs. Dyer: Wilson: Water; Sohiffl: Soull: ^ '
A Manufacturing Committee consisting of Messrs.
Dyer: Wilson: Weber: Sohiffl and Soull, has been established,
for the purpose of passing on all matters pertaining to the
issuing of shop orders or requisitions, or the expenditure of
monies, for experimental work, tools, machinery, equipment, new
buildings or additions thereto, improvements to„plaat, &o,„&o»
Mr, Soull will aot as Secretary of this Committee, and regular
meetings will be held in Executive Committee Room on Thursday of
eaoh week, at 2:00 P„M., Special meetings will be oalled by the
Secretary whenever matters of sufficient importance warrant.
All suggestions for improvement or changes to articles aL -
ready standardized are to be sent to the Chief Engineer, as here¬
tofore. The Chief Engineer will pasB on such suggestions, and
attaoh thereto his approval with estimated oost of tools, also
increase or decrease in oost of production, or disapproval., with
reasons therefor, and then send them to the Secretary of Manu¬
facturing Committee, who will oolleot suoh data as may be necessary
in connection therewith, and explain what effect the ohangeB would
have on stock on hand, production, &o., and present them to
Manufacturing Committee at their next meeting. All suggestions
relative to the buildling of new types of machines of any kind
are to be handled in the same manner.
All suggestions, requestor proposes pertaining to tools,
machinery, equipment, new buildings, or changes thereto', improve¬
ments or qhanges in plant, &o., involving more than $100.00 in oost,
are to be referred, as heretofore, to Mr, Weber, who will pass
them along to Seoretary of Manufacturing Committee with his appro¬
val or disapproval and reasons therefor, and the Seoretary will
then refer them to the Manufacturing Committee at their next
meeting for final disposition.
Please give this memo, your careful attention and transmit
the contents of same to such people as are in your department,
or under your control as are interested/ and to whom it has not
been sent, as per names indioated hereon.
The first meeting of the Manufacturing Committee will take
place Thursday, June 9th,
6/3/LO, E, 1. Dyer.
Copies to Messrs. Deeming: Westee: Eckert: Aiken: W.Miller: Aylsworth
Riehl: Watennan: Hehr: Dang: Parkhurst: Durand: Dolbeer: John Pelzer:
Hudsoh: Burnham: Plimpton: Waddell: Hird:
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Dear Mr. Edison!
On my return to town I have been given your telo-
phonio mossape, asking mo to oorae over and get ray old maohine, 1
neod hardly toll you how grateful and delighted I am, and I hnvo
been making arrangements with Bee this morning as to the disposal
of the raaohine so that wo oan get a little aooustomed to it, I
will be out oarly myself to soe you and got the raaohine directly
from your generous hands, and then I will di souse with you the kind
of trip you would liko mo to make, and the kind of notes that would
be interesting, and oould be developed to advantage.
We are no^/opening our Museum of Safety in one of the lecture
rooms of the Engineering Building as a permanency, and are oollooting
exhibits. There is no oharge for the spaoe and wo are only too
glad to be able to do this, I want you to lot mo have as your
exhibit - either for the section of safety or that of sanitation -
whatever you may have available in tho shape of a model or parts
of the struoturo illustrative of your ooraent house for artisans.
It need not take up a great deal of room, but what has been shown
in the magazines recontly would do, or oven details of the struc¬
ture, I will arrange this with you when I oomo out next woek.
I want to take this opportunity also to thank you in the
name of the National Electric Light Association for your dispatoh
of congratulation, whioh was read on anniversary night, and wan
received with a tremendous outburst of applauso. It might ho 3aid
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fused to take up, until he had seen the car or demonstration of
Steward^ adjunct or controller to he used in connection with
Mr. Edison's Battery.
I now take this opportunity of thanking you again for
all your kindness and courtesy to me during my soujourn^ in Mr
Edison's laboratory.
Please remember me to your sister and say I regretted
not seeing her before I left.
Yours truly,
I ATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATIOI
NE7 YORK, June 20?. 1910.
7. A. Edison, Esquire
Edison Laboratory
Orange, N. J.
Dear Mr. Edison:
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I have your inquiry from
and am inquiring from him as to the length of his 'moat .
quite likely that you will hear from him dirootly but I shall be glad
to do whatever is neoessary at any time.
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You will be glad to hear, or at least I am glad to state,
thnt I now have my beautiful automobile in good running order and have
made arrangements for keeping it at one of the up town garages, baoked
by the General Vehiole Company. My Edison battery is the only kind
of the set there and they are all very much interested in it. I have
already made considerable mileage in the maohine and find it smooth and
easy in operation beyond all empeotanoy.
As soon as I am a little more familiar with it I shall be ready
fr tl’.e run to Philadelphia and baok, and if you have any suggestions or
instructions would be glad to hear from you, in oase I should not be out
at the Laboratory before I go on the trip. As I have available the
services of my son, who is an engineer with the Hew York Edison Company,
and wan at one time in their automobile department, I oan undertake to
make sundry tests and observations of an easy oharaoter and report to
you or to publish the data in articles from time to tine. If there are
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any ouoh tests that would be of eervioe, I should be very glad indeed
to hear from you. I oan make arrangements for a record of the oharge
and discharge, mileage, eto, and other features. I need hardly say
that anything I can do in this respeot I shall do most gladly and in
the meantime I want to thank you again for your generosity and thought¬
fulness in placing suoh a beautiful automobile at my disposal.
Believe me, with regards,
Yours truly,
Executive Seoretary.
LABORATORY AND OFFIOt
HENRY O. DEMMING
15 and 17 £orlh Third Si.. Harrisburg. Pa
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I have read with much interest, as well as instruction, your
excellent article in the June number of Popular Electricity. I
am pleased to know that your words are being widely copied, and
that your statements are favorably discussed by a number of
scientists.
I was particularly interested in one of the pictures, /where
you are represented as pouring from the lip of a dish some liquid
into a glass test tube of unusual^) small diameter. This con¬
vinces me that your hands remain as steady as ever, and that your
eyesight is undimmed. When I pour from a porcelain dish any
liquid into so small a test tube, if delicate exactness is
necessary, X have to use a glass funnel.
With my kindest personal regards, T remain
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The interest thus far shownjLn the afeproa^h^ng^.^^
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Convention of the Associate
ful meeting. The papers to he presented are receiving
most careful attention, and the entertainment features at I
Erontenac leave nothing to he desired.
Accommodations at the Hotel Erontenac will ho $4.00
per person daily for a room v/ithout hath and $5.00 daily with
hath - the price per person remaining the same whether there
he one or tv/o occupants. Reservations should he made direct¬
ly with the hotel. In view of the probability of heavy book¬
ings over Labor Day, it is urged that those desiring to
visit the Island a few days prior to the opening of the
The full Convention programme together with
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etc., will he contained i
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Yours very truly,
President.
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PICCADILLY CIRCUS,
LON DON,
July 6th, 1910.
H. F. Hiller Esq.,
Secretary, Thomas Edison's laboratory.
Orange Hew Jersey. U.S.A.
My dear Harry,
I am exceedingly obliged to you for asking Mr. Edison
about this Hr. Stewart and hope you will see him and thank him
as well for me for his warning re/ that gentleman.
Mr. Stewart's Battery Controlling Device is certainly
clever if new and should he find the capital to construct a car
and wishes me to show it to Mr. Edison I will run out to America
again before the fall and make a thorough test of it at Orange
at which time Mr. Edison can give me his invaluable opinion if
good or bad and if the former he might interest himself in it.
With very kindest regards,
y0r7
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company"
I was younger in those day was for ten years a telegraph
operator, electricity was a budding, rapidly developing science, and
your fame so impressed me that what you said was stamped on my memory.
I wonder does a man's memory tangle such stories with the lapse of years?
In 1888-89 I was at the laboratory and in Hew York for two
months while you worked day and night on the wax cylinder phonograph and
came away with a license from Lippincott given at your instance for the
Pacific Coast. Bo you recollect that I was in Hew York later with a
nickel-in- the-slot phonograph which you decried but the patents for which
had gone through the Patent Office without a single contestant as I now
remember - it was so early in the game. Do you remember how I came to
you at Ogden, H.J., with the first spring-actuated phonograph and that
you refused to make them for us because the American Phonograph Compary
owed you a trifle of §700,000. Do you know that I was the Kanager of
the Edison General Electric Company in California when that great big
pretentious) bubble, the Thompson-Houston Company, with their rotten
watery assets took us into a hostile camp, a deliberately perpetrated
swindle . I had sold every incandescent plant in the State (we had no
arc system) and could have equipped every Railway, hut those Columbia
graduates at Schnectady were sending us 14 h.p. motors guaranteed 25 h.p.
that would carbonize the armature on a half mile up-grade every trip.
"Saving the coal pile" was their motto, the Innocents! Well, that is
all past hi story and the latter part probably does not interest you much.
Con Nestor has opened an office in this building (the Bell
Telephone Building) and I am sure will do good work with your battery;
he is one of the best selling agents and canvassers we have ever had
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Heniiy W. Dakuncj, TllEASUnEK
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Ehomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, 5. J.
My dear Sir: —
I am in reoeipt of your Secretary's
letter of the 6th Inst., returning our oheque for
$26.00 and notioe your request to stop further pay¬
ments on this account, as the project with the Yluo -
resoent lamp is hopeless. IMb I will report to our
Executive Committee, and with thanks for the return
of the oheque, I am.
Yours very truly.
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Schenectady, H. Y. , July 8, 1910.
Mr. Xhos. A. Edison,
Orange ,
H. J.
My. dear Mr. Edison-
My. dear Mr. Edison- :y.;
I am sending_|^yo^L bv^wail to-day a little device for
lighting gas which may interest ycriL She patent will he issued
to me, hut I did not care to have my name appear on tEfe article.
Ihis igniter may he used for lighting hunsen burners &c., in the
laboratory. I use one constantly now instead of matches. Our
girl also uses one in the kitchen for the gas stove. It is
quicker than matchos and absolutely safe. You can put one thick¬
ness of a handkerchief over the sparking end and the sparks that
pass through the cotton cloth will light gas , hut will not burn
the handkerchief.
I am also sending you, under separate cover, three
short articles that I have written up for "Popular Electricity" viz:-
" testing Edison Dynamos and lamps Quarter of a Century ago."
"The Story of Sunbury Station."
"Story of the First Hot V/ire Current Indicator, &c."
I should be glad if you would glance over these papers
when you have time and tell me if you think them all right.
With regards and best wishes.
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LON DON, W.
July 21st . , 1910 .
H. F. Hiller Esq., Secretary,
Thomas A. Edison Esq., laboratories .
Orange Ilew Jersey. U. S. A.
ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENCINEER.
Dear Mr. Miller,
I should feel much obliged if you would fcindly let me
have at your earliest convenience, your latest Battery Catalogues
as I want the various sizes measurements etc., so that Stewart can
build his car ana later on order the batteries when the car is
finished. You may rest assured my dear friend that I am not
doing any financing after what you were good enough to tell me.
With bind regards, .hoping you are well.
Yours truly,'
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LIQUID QAS COMPANY
Through a recent announcement that a Bavarian
inventor’s process for making liquid gas, known as
Blaugas, had been sold to a §5,000,000 corporation with
Commodore E. C. Benedict as president, and numbering
among its directors Judge Gary, chairman of the U. S.
Steel Corporation ; Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telegraph & Telephone Company j Theodore
P. Shouts, president of the Metropolitan Street Railway,
and that a large sum of money had been handed over to
tile inventor as the purchase price, the public, is appraised
of another development in industrial progress. This cor¬
poration was organized by Frank Z. Maguire and W. W.
Gooch, both well known in electrical circles. Mr.
Maguire was seen recently by a representative of the
Electrical World and stated that it would be premature to
give information respecting the Blaugas Company of
America at the present time, but that he wished to take
the opportunity to express his great sympathy with the
endeaver of the journal to improve the status of the patent
laws. Much of the best inventive work, said he, is now
coming from Germany and it is because that country is
affording the inventor very much more protection than we
do. It is high time to ask the question, “ Where are we
eventually to finish in this contest, particularly when
skilled labor is so much cheaper in Germany than with
[FROM FRANK L. DYER]
E. H. Johnson, Eqq.,
C/o Union league Club,
Hot York City.
Dear I Jr. Johnson:
At Ur. Edison's roquost I bog to give
you the following information on tho subject of moving
pictures for uoo in Clubs:
EQUIBJP.IIQ?
Underwriters' Model "B" Kinctoseopc, with
Khoostat, for diroet ourront-
Undorwriters* Model "B" Kinctoocopo, with
Transformer, for alternating current-
Underwriters' Model "B" Kinetoscopo, with
Portable Ges Outfit eomplctc-
Oporator’s salary per week $15.00 to $20.00
" " " night 3.00 to 5.00.
CUBTAIH
flic best curtain is a while plastor wall. If this
is not advisable, then a curtain of stout cotton or
woonsockot shooting mil be found satisfactory; siso
about 12 feet by 14 feot- * * 6.50
Givo two coats of kalsomino, or gelatine
and whiting, oxtra-
3.00.
• II. Johnson. ED1BON M4HXg.\URINO OOMPANY
IvIAIIIIBHAIICE
Vflioro electricity is usod,
Coot of cnrhono per cvcninrr-
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. j, S-inmor. three reels, chan nod daily opn.00
to ^140.00 wcclrly; $5.00 to 6 10. 00 por niGht ’
. . throe rods, chanced daily, $55.00
bo vGO.OO wooltly; $5.00 to $10.00 per niflit.
^-lyicahlo in some instances to use a fivC
for°a'bout<:$50?00?"0 oporator‘ whlch *0 purchased
If there is any furthor information you would lilco
to have, lot me hnow and I will he glad to Civc it to
you.
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SanEkancisco Aug. 25th, 1910.
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison, -■> t
Orange, Hew Jersey.
Dear Hr. Edison: -
Thanh you £indly for the portrait and also the characteristic
note "Life is one damned thing after another". X am not a pessimist
hut X sometimes feel as if "Life is an experience with one inrrate after
another" .
T have had a hard deal for two years past, hut when X harken
back to what I know of your experience - how you have been defrauded and
robbed ifl part or in whole of your discoveries great and small, and
how some of your intimate and trusted business associates and friends
have blossomed into confidence men to exploit you as the victim; how the
pure and holy academical scientists with their great financial combina¬
tions have pilfered your wares and your discoveries and for an unimpeacha¬
ble defense have always had a man on their pay-roll who thought your
thoughts before you did. -- Oh, noJ I am not in it as a target for the
ingrate and the "filcher of good names". Everybody must yield the palm
to you^and Con says there are soft spots in your heart still left.
I am glad to say Con Hestor is ixil improving gradually, but
is yet on crutches and confined to his home at San Rafael.
Some day I am coming to you personally asking the addition of
two words to the inscription on your portrait.
With kind regards, I am.
CordiallyXaurs
LABORATORY AND OFFICES Consulting Geologist. Mineralogist and Chomlst Common-
OP wealth of Pennsylvania.
HENRY O. DEM MIN Q
15 and 17 North Third St.. Harwsmiro, Pa., U. S. A. /] .
Cable Address : — Marlon." ^ J ■*.<! I > °
Harrisburg, Pa. , August 27, 1910.
Hon. Thomas A. Edison, Wi^
Orange, Hew Jersey. F eCem-s*. c?- flrii*VAW
Friend Edison:
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When you have completed any of* the concrete houses described
in Popular Electricity" for Sg>tem3er, 1910, \>y Mr. W. H. jjLdo wj
iroft, please inform me where I can examine the structured I am j
luch interested in the success of yo^. undertaking in this field
I see on page 430 of the same magazine that this fall the
>ers are going to publish the standard biography of yourself,
his correct? If it is , I must have a copy when printed, at
e well and prospei
, and that I shall sooi
5 of meeting you again personally,-
few good stories in stock,— I remain
Faithfully youri
[FROM HARRY F. MILLER]
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September 1, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Llewellyn Park,
East Orange, N..J.
My dear Mr. Edison: -
When I had the pleasure
of meeting you at your place about
three years ago with the members of:
the Electrochemical Sooiety. I told
you that I was writing a scientific
. treatise on poetry, and I promised
to send you a copy as soon as the
book should be published. It has
taken much longer than I expected:
in fact, I have been at work on the
book for more than nine years.
It has now just been published by
the Punk ana Wagnalls Company, and
I am sending you today, by mail,
the long-promised complimentary
copy.
hnneh1!Ve B subject 'of pJJtry
fl° aM iBpartiai
I believe that the book
discovers very important funda¬
mental truths, and that it will
shorten the path and lessen the
labor and expense in the acquire¬
ment of some very useful knowledge
to men and women of letters, tea¬
chers and public speakers, and
will lead many out of a maze of
misconception.
After you have read the
book, I should be very glad to
know how you like it.
Yours faithfully,
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INSTRUMENTS FOR THE DEAF
SKptember 19, 1910.
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I wish to call to your ht tent ion, ns n user of tie
icon, sono of the new types which v/e havo placed upon th
market within the lu at few months. They are the typo \ ana 3, y
taking the place of the PI Acoustic on; the type B» tiling the (• i
place of the r>2; the type » In place of the J.TS ; the tync^S if f
in place of the L24. V/e have also added a type F2 and ah oak p.
Dining’loom and Directors’ Table outfit that cover now fields nO£
heretofore unknown for the Acousticon. *'5
Xou have an old instrument v/hich wo believe la givingPP ^ ,
you good satisfaction but at the same time w e feel that ifyou "jj r
could got an instrument t hot would give you even bettor results h»— jf
than the one you hive, you would not hesitate to make a no ;:changoC f
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mo a frank statement of the results you are obtaining with your~^ . Z
Instrument and if it is ycur desire to tc-st one of thenewer ! ^
types which v/e have, with the understanding that I quote you an J ; ,
allowance upon your old instrument to be applied upon the new Ifr |R
you do this, it will give me pleasure to send you on fivo days’ t ;
approval whichever type you desire to tost by the side of your $ j f
old instrument. 5 0^
In replying, will you kindly mention the typo ar; d serial |»
number of your instrument and when purchuscd? V\r
: to make a no jcchangoC f
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BATTERIES
The ACOUSTICON is operated by dry cell
batteries, which deteriorate even when not in
The length of life of those batteries depends,
of course, upon the use to which they are put,
and upon the demand the condition of hearing
The Types A, R, D and F ACOUSTICOXS
arc equipped with No. 2 batteries, costing 25
The Type II ACOUSTICOX is operated
with No. 15 batteries. Three of them are
required to operate the instrument, and they
cost ^25^ cents ^each. ^ These ^t hr ec batteries
These batteries can lie shipped by mail,
adding 15 cents to the price of the No. 15 if
The life of batteries can he considerably
lerigt licit ed by using t^icm alternately. That is,
month.
coniine orders for batteries to one
from the dale of purchase. Most
lace standing orders with us for bat-
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TheAcousticon
- THE ORIGINAL -
Electrical Aid to Hearing
GENERAL ACOUSTIC
= COMPANY = - :
1265 BROADWAY
c'nni oiL.. Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y.
W here the Jlcouslicon may be ‘Cried
General Acoustic Company. Address.
715 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington.
408 Sibley Street, St. Paul, Minn.
General Acoustic Company of Canada, Ltd.
408 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada.
Avenida, S. Francisco, 16 D. F. Mexico.
Rue lluyhrechts 28, Antwerp, Rclgiitm.
London Works, 59 Fleet Street, London, E. C.
6 Rue de Hanovre, Paris, France.
17 Kaiserplatz, Frankfurt a-M, Germany.
20 Uucklcrsbury, London, E. C. England.
119 Victoria Street, Westminster, London,
S. W. England.
Chester, England.
39 Swain Street, Bradford, England.
The A
cousticon
WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
The Orlgnlal Electrical Hearing Device
The ACOUSTICON is an electrically
operated instrument, constructed in ^exact
1 clarifying of
hearing ca
>r hard of
it they require and
thus artmciatiy equipped with what Nature
denies them are placed on a plane of practical
equality, so far as normal hearing is con¬
cerned, with all their fellowmcu and women.
The ACOUSTICON is made in a great
variety of styles and types, giving different
degrees of strength and clearness of articu¬
lation. It is absolutely certain that with some
of its various adjustments, it can restore hear¬
ing to fully 90 per cent, of the affected.
It is not an experiment. It has been up- *
the market for nine years,
demonstrated its efficiency
irs, and has thoroughly
enabled thousands to engage in Church
c, opened the doors of llientrcs and
lecture halls. It helps hundreds to make a
livelihood in business from which they other¬
wise would have been debarred. We have
thousands of letters on fill
rf is
. . ie ACOUSTICOX "pi
patented, its results cannot be dupli
The ACOUSTICON cannot be compared
with old-fashioned tubes, drums, speaking
horns, etc., that have brought partial relief to
people in years past. These instruments
merely transmit sound. Most deaf people re¬
quire not only reproduced but ampiifiu d sound
ami clarified articulation.
in using the ACOUSTICON it is not
necessary to speak directly into the trans-
initter to enable the user to hear, as with
trumpets or speaking tubes. 'I he '.omul re¬
ceiver collects sound from all reasonable^ dis-
which Nature intended* It is not necessary
to shout. Ordinary speaking tones are carried
to the deaf person in exactly the same volume
in which they are given, and arc plainly
understandable by him. As soon as the cars
instrument for ni
General Acoustic Co.
JAMAICA. LONG ISLAND. N. Y.
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The Acousticon and Microphones
The Electrical Transmission of Sound Waves
claiming attention on the ground tliat they are
as separate and distinct front the otltcr'as po'ssi-
lilc. First, the ACOUSTICON, which is a sound
magnifier and itllensilicr with electric and micro-
phonic attachments, all fully covered liy patents,
which prevent duplication.
Second, electrical hearing devices giving only
microphonic or telephonic service. Most of these
instruments arc constructed by telephone compa¬
nies under contract, anti they are stilt! under a
microphones arc usually priced at $35.00. They
cannot lie compared in quality with the ACOUS¬
TICON, because they cannot he adjusted to the
To meet the demand^ for a cheap electrical hcar-
pnt upon the market an instrument known as the
PlIONinn;, which we guarantee to he the equal,
if tint the superior, of any other tnicrnphonic
instrument. . ^ sell h for $>5.«l, $10.00 less than
The ACOUSTICON consists of more
than 400 parts, but on its surface shows
but four parts. The battery, earpiece,
transmitter and connecting cord.
The transmitter is that part of the instru¬
ment which is worn on the coat or vest and
receives and magnifies sound. It is con¬
structed to gather sound in a circumference
of nine inches and to concentrate the full
power of that sound at the extreme point
of a sound focusing cone which is in close
proximity to a peculiarly constructed highly
sensitive diaphragm. By means of these
and their relation to each other the trans¬
mitter can magnify sound from 100 per
cent, to nearly 500 per cent, in accordance
with the needs of each person and to con¬
vey it in its magnified condition to the cars.
An electric current picks this magnified
sound up at this focused point and carries
it to earpiece.
This transmitter must be perfect if it is
to give the results for which the ACOUS¬
TICON is designed. Every part of the
transmitter, diaphragm, and cone must be
exact as to thickness and shape. We dis¬
card hundreds — even thousands — of these
parts as not fulfilling requirements and this
is one of the principal reasons why the
instrument must he as expensive as it is.
Every part of the ACOUSTICON must
lie exact or it will not work truly and every
instrument is carefully tested and known to
he absolutely perfect before it leaves onr
factory.
It is estimated that there arc forty-
eight different degrees of deafness. The
ACOUSTICON by means of its various
adjustments is equipped to meet them all
and to give each individual the exact degree
of accentuated sound and clearness of ar¬
ticulation that lie requires.
When the hones of the middle ear become
stiffened or cemented together, sound waves
directed into them must lie intensified and
multiplied. They must be sharpened in
order to loosen and limber up the hones.
The necessary degree of sharpness varies
with individuals. The ACOUSTICON is
adj'ustcd by means of instruments and trans¬
mitters of vary ing. degrees of strength and
by means of a series of eight earpieces
giving different degrees of accentuated
sound and clearness of articulation.
No other electrical hearing device can
he so adjusted.
The Acousticon in Church
, is a distinctly
uetnv ..w„ ..von permanently installed in
rc than 500 chnrchcs in all parts of the United
The time is not far distant when being deaf
will not prevent a person from visiting and enjoy¬
ing the pleasures of all public entertainments, as in
addition to the lo.... . . . . .
of theatres, and auditoriums have provided them¬
selves with the ACOUSTICON. Thus a deaf
person obtaining an earpiece, may secure a seat
with an ACOUSTICON connection and enjoy the
program the same as one with normal hearing.
The success of the CHURCH ACOUSTICON
is the best proof that it is recognized as the best
electrical ^ hearing device. ^ No ^ ®t,lc^org
few scattered elm relies. The demand for the
CHURCH ACOUSTICON on the other hand is
Any number of earpieces may be connected
desired distance to accommodate persons, who
The^ fact that pastors and members of con¬
gregations of leading chnrchcs throughout the
United States and Canada are almost daily send¬
ing us photographs of their churches for repro-
' — ,r printed matter, together wuu —
ic ACOUSTICON.
Answering your esteemed favor of the 21st instant
regarding Hr. Edison’s Acouetioon, I believe that one of our
nev/or types such os i he type D cr type F, descr lotions of which
I enclose would be far better for ilr. Edison's use than the one
which he has.
i’he fault which he finds with the instrument os to
"too much frying sounds", can be instantly done away wi th by the
use of earpieces of greater resistance.
If Mr. Edison would like t o t ly one of these tyoes
’whichever you would select, I cannot only send him the instrument
but ar, assortment of earpieces so that you can have him test
the instrument with you, producing the proper amount of
articulation for his use. Of course, you ‘under stand that this
is usually done in our office under our own direction but
knowing how busy a man Mr. Edison is, I suggest the above mode
of procedure.
Immediately upon your rec.uost for a trial, it v/ill
bo sent to you by express.
Av/uiting your reply, I am
Very truly yours.
GENERAL A CO US? IC C OKPAIIY ,
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Manufacturers of Instruments for the Deaf
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING
The Type “F”
ACOUSTICON
General Acoustic Co.
Manufacturers of
Instruments for the
Deaf
JAMAICA, L. L, NEW YORK I
GENERAL ACOUSTIC CO.
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your kindness in permitting me to take this
picture, I am, with kindest regardB,
Mr. H.F. Miller,
Sec. to Thomas A.Edisop, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:-
Your letter to Mr, Maxim, stating that
Mr. Thos. A. Edison has not received the hook, which
Mr. Maxim sent him, is received. Steps will immediate¬
ly he taken to trace the hook and Mr. Edison will probably
receive it very soon.
Yours very truly,
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Secretary^
POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER'S OFFICE,
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New York, October 6, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Dear Hr. Edison
When you v;ere here 'J^ifie^monthi ago yo$
told Mr. Bruch and me that you would soon be ready to sh^
us a way to greatly improve the neutral sides oix^uadSi^lexos^'
Whenever you are ready I shall be gl| to
make an appointment.
lours truly.
Electrical Engineer.
two instruments sent you for Mr. Edison's trial? It will give
us pleasure to hear your report.
Very truly yours,
GENE HAT, ACOUSTIC COMPANY,
Mr. T. A. Edison,
Orange, E. J.
My dear Mr. Edison:
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When I had the pleasure to talk with you at the last
Edison Convention on high voltage insulation, you suggested the
formaldehyde phenol and similar condensation products, and I
understood you to say, that you had investigated a number of
suoh products, and found methods of making them, by which water
is not split off in the final condensation. We have done some
experimenting with Bakelite for insulating purposes, are very
greatly interested in high voltage insulation, as obvious, and
I should be very glad, if you would feel like giving me infor¬
mation on the various condensation products of this character,
which you have studied, their properties, mechanical and other¬
wise, their production and their application, provided you think
it advisable to do so.
At the same time, I wish to remind you of the promise
you made me, to send me a large photograph of yourself, with your
signature. I should very greatly appreciate it. I send you one
my
of my photographs, taken by the son of / dear friend and former
employer, the late Mr. Eickemeyer.
With best regards.
Sincerely yours.
CPS-SW
r Sir:
Ansvvoring your esteemed favor of the 11th instant,
am pleased to learn that Mr. Edison received the instruments
fely and is giving them a thorough test, and is pleased wi th
of thorn which T sent him. You do not mention which type is
. "ing him the best satisfaction but it is a pleasure to know ti¬
ls doing the work which he desires.
I hope to hear from you shortly regarding which one
to be kept.
I also thank you for the name of :ir. T. E. Jenning3,
cli shall have most careful attention.
Very truly yours ,
BE1IERAL ACOUSTIC COIJPAHY,
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ATTORNEYAT LAW
not. 17,
1910
Mr. Jhomu A. Adi. son
TilwUyn ’’ark, H.J.
Dear 'Air : -
During many yearn aciiimin' anee with Milton
?, Adana ho has frequently spoken of his early association
anti frioiwlah.li> with yon. Mho enclosed lot. tor has informed
wo that ho is dying in tl o -north Wheeling Hospital at Wheeling
West Virginia after having his foot, amputated. ho Is -without,
moans to .>ro»i(f« surgical and nursing attondanoo or oven to
pay f unoral expenses, and his relatives are too poor to pro¬
vide for him. His friends some of whom T think you know ,
are making up a fund for his relief. "he nature of his ill¬
ness makes it possible that ho may linger for weeks and per¬
haps months.
T do not know whether you have been informed of
his necessities, and T have therefore taken the liberty of
writing to you, in order that, you may contribute towards
making ht\s lastr:dayS as comfortable as may bo.
Mr. clement See, Manager of the Direct 1I.S. Cable
Co. hew Street 'lev; York wildcat tend the forwarding of the con¬
tributions.
"nry truly yours,
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SEUiIHG & ADUI HIS TRATI VE EXPENSE
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MEETING Off 'JH10 MAN Uff AC TUH ING COMMITTEE
HELD NOVEMBER 17, 1910.
PRESENT: Me sura. Wilson, ,Veber, Soull & Sohiffl.
SPARK COIL - BLISS DESIGN.
A new design for a spark ooil was submitted by
the Engineering Department and it was agreed that one dozen
of these should be made up whioh Mr. Hudson is to place with out¬
side parties for test.
NUMBERS OH JAR COVERS.
A suggestion to remove the numbers from jar o overs
Hos. 1, 2 and 5 was adopted in order to avoid the carrying of
three kinds of covers in stook. it is understood that this
removal would necessitate the placing of labels on the jars;
Mr. Hudson is to prepare the neoessary oopy for suoh labels. This
ohange is not to go into effect until the present supply of jar
covers is exhausted.
SUSPENSION BOLTS "BSCO" BATTERY.
A proposition to shorten the wedged head end of the
suspension bolt so as to rivet the "BSCO" frame over the bottom of
the head, making it rigid in frame was adopted. This ohange
was made to oonform to the R S A Standard and supersedes the Model
as adopted by Manufhoturing Committee September 29, 1910. •
H1AMP BATTERY .
In aooordanoe with suggestion of Mr. Hudson, it
was decided, subjeot to the approval of Mr. Byor, to take up
60 Sev'-n Plato elements,
200 Five " "
100 Three " "
for this Battery so that Mr. Hudson oould have an opportunity
to plaoe thorn with the trade to try them out under various
oiroumstanoes, and for different uses. it is understood that
tools for this purpose are nil complete, hut that the pookets
will he filled hy hand.
■ HUMP 13mm FOB IGHITIOiN PURPOSES.
It was deoidrd that a sample battery with a singly
oxide plate element approximating 200 ampere-hours-oapaoity for
ignition purposes he made up. The cell is to he in a rectangular
metal jar and the battery enclosed in wooden boxes.
BATTERY 3IB0 PASTIES MAOHIHE.
The suggestion to make up an experimental maohine
for oasting Battery zino plates automatically was considered and
it was decided to incorporate suoh a oasting maohine in the lay¬
out of a proposed plant now being made by the Engineer ing Bep't.
In this connection it was also deoided to investigate the
temperature at which zino is melted at Silver lake and also the
advisability of moving the 3ino Casting Plant to Orange.
SUBS TIT PTE FOB HO. 6 ABD SO. 9 E1BMEBT.
The suggestion to manufacture a single new type
"BSCO" element with an oxide plate, approximately 4-1/2 x 4-1/2
with zino plates to correspond, and a oapaoity of 360 ampere
hours was adopted. ThiB new elemont is to be adopted for
the present Ho. 5 and Ho. 9, and to he made so as to be used
In plaoe of either of them.
RIBBIHG OX ID 15 BIATES - KaBKRIUEMI.
The suggestion that ribbing oxide plates might be
advantageous in baking, was considered and it was decided that
if the Engineering Department can alter an old mould so as to
oarry^out thiB experiment, an experiment should be oarried out
on a sufficiently large soale to demonstrate its utility.
SUBSTITUTE FOR PRESENT "GORDOH" OOIiBECTOR.
It was deoided that the Engineering Department
should make up a simple for a substitute for our present
"Gordon" connector, and submit it at the next meeting of
ihe Manufacturing Committee.
0Y1IHDKR DOCK BUT, BUSINESS PliOUOGRABH.
It was deoided to adopt the suggestion of a
look nut on the end of the mandrel according to a Model
submitted by Mr. ./eber. This change is to take effeot
immediately.
DICTATING ilORH, BUSIME3S PHOTOGRAPH.
It was deoided to adopt a fastening to hold the
dictating horn to the ball joint connection. This ohange is
to take effeot at onoe.
HIBG-E PIE OH FOOT TRIP PEDAL, BUSIUESS PHOHOGRAfH. .
It was deoided to make a longer pin and provide
a look nut for this pin to obviate its accidental displacement.
This ohange to take effeot at once.
RECORDER OUP BtlSIDESS PH0D0SR.U‘H.
' The proposition to out out the reo order oup
on the underside opposite the weight hinge to prevent the
weight from stioking from an accumulation of wax was adopted.
This ohange to take effeot at onoe.
SO ODD MODIFIER op BU3ID.ES5 BHODOBRAPTT-
It was decided to change the ourve on the sound
modifier on the Business Phonograph to prevent the breaking of
the rubber connection, because of the shortness of the bend
This change to take effect when the present stock is exhausted.
HED4G0D SBID.E ROD BUSIDESS P»OBOSR1BH JMaramwn,
It was decided to place a lug 0n the end casting
of the resistance support so ihat it would be impossible to
turn this hexagon rod around. This change to take place on
fte next lot of castings and on those already in stock a small
Piece is to be provided for the same purpose.
GEM GOVERHOR DISO. STOP COLLAR AND SET SORBV
It was decided to do amy with these parts since
they are of no use under the present construction.
SHUTTER SHAFT BE1RIDGS OP P. g. MOHTWEs.
It was deoided to provide hardened
steel bushings'
for shutter shaft on the frame side of the Model "B" and Exhibition
naohine, and also on the frame sides and braokets of the Model "E"
outside shutter type. Additional metal is provided on the oust¬
ing (side frame) for this purpose, and the frames on hand are to
be used up so for as possible on the Ixhibition Model.
OOVEB 1T0R P. K. MAOillHES.
After a disoussion as to the possible utility
of the oovers at the present time provided for P. K. Ma¬
chines, it was deoided to investigate the possibility of
substituting for the present wooden oover a oheap enameled
leather bag .
HOB-AUTOMAT 10 BUMBHRIHB MAOEIHK PLATE
It was deoided to nuke up new stamps for the
Bates -and , isard maohines to be used when made specially
and non-automatio . Cost of the same estimated by Mr.
Hedfearn as .;p60.00.
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My dear Edison,
We are at present working on metal filaments made of wire
drawn direct from Wolfram metal, and I am sending you herewith a sample
of wire which has been drawn out of Wolfram (not, however, by us) . I
know that you are well up in all the various kinds of metals, and it
has struck me that you could perhaps help me in thiB matter.
Could you give me a few hints from your life-long experience
as to what other metals besides Wolfram and Uran could stand the high
pressures or heat necessary for the manufacture of these filaments, and
of which wire could be made?1 There is,, no doubt, plenty of literature
on this subject, but, unfortunately, it is unknown to me, and I should,
therefore, be very glad if you could also let me have some information
on this point.
The time is coming when lamp manufacturers will adopt the
BERGMANN ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
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Thoma8 A. Edison Esq., Llewellyn Park, Orange.
method of making filaments of drawn wire, as the percentage of breakage
of lamps with the ordinary squirted filaments is Btill very high. In
fact, the General Electric Co. are already working on this problem,
and, as I understand, pretty successfully.
No doubt you know how the Wolfram filaments are now made.
The Wolfram powder is made ouf of Wolfram acid and then mixed to a
paste . This paste is squirted through dies under high pressure and
the filament is then formed under electric current into a wire. In view
of this process, you can imagine how very much more cheaply and simply
a lamp could be made if it were possible to produce the filaments
out of ordinary drawn wire.
What I now want to know is, in what form the mffitals can be
obtained, and which would be the proper way to roll and draw same, cold
or hot, into such a fine wire as the enclosed sample. Perhaps you
are inclined to tackle this problem and manufacture such wires your¬
self for lamp filaments and other purposes for the open market. In
any case, I should be very glad if you could let me have any informa¬
tion or hints on the subject.
With all best wishes to you and your family for a merry
Christmas and a happy tfew Year, I am,
Dear Mr. Edison:
Foley
I told you so.
(signed) Foley.
He puts on no frills.— he looks good t
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NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
MEETING OF THE MAHUFACTURIHG COMMITTEE
HELD DECEMBER 8, 1910.
Messrs. Wilson, Weber, Scull & Sohiffl.
DETACHABLE BOTTOM. CART OH FOR BUS IilESS PHONOGRAPH.
Model of a detachable bottom carton for Business
Phonograph was submitted and adopted. The manufacture of this
new device is to begin at once; the stock of the present type
of boxes, however, being kept up so as surely over-lap the
manufacture of tfto new Model.
BLISS MOTOR.
The estimate of the Cost Department for the cost
of the manufacture of the new Bliss Motor providing for both
Direct and Alternating Current up to, but not including 133
cyolds was submitted. This co3t including the ovorhead expense
and profits to tho Works was shown to be substantially the same
as the present cost of ^.C. motor, and it was agreed that a
Production Order for 13 Bliss Motors should be plaoed at once,
these motors to be built of different types so that they could
bo tried out under different circumstances to make Bure that they
were correct, before actually using them on machine for regular
production. It was decided to make three of these motors of
slow speed for use in the Business Phonographs, up to and includ¬
ing 100 cycles, and three for over 100 cycles; three of these
motors are to be made of sufficiently high speed to be used in
the new shaving machine and are to be designed to take care of
100 cycles, and three of them to take care of 133 cycles. 7/hen
these high speed motors are sent out for test on shaving machines
the Engineering Department should fiiako suitable changes in the
pulleys so as to use them in the old design of machines.
GORDON CONNECTORS.
Sample Gordon Connector with the nut staked on the
middle of a threaded rod was submitted and adopted.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH HORN CRANE.
It was decided to extend the horn crane as at
present about three inches to prevent extreme side motion of
the horn when the arm swings; this change to take place when
the present stook is exhausted.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH ALUMINUM HEARING TUBE.
It was agreed to shorten the whole length of the
tube about 2-1/2 inches. This change to take place when the
present stock is exhausted.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH ATTAnmrCTirp CQHD.
It was decided to place an open link connection
on the end of the Universal resistance on which a tied loop
of the attachment cord could be slipped so aB to obviate the
necessity for the consumer to tie this knot.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH PEDBSTAT. mrvP-
It was decided to oatfttwo small lugs on the
pedestal top of the Business Phonograph to provide holding
fingers for the square nut of the tie rod for pedestal.
FIMISH OH BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH BARTS.
In view of the report of the Cost Department that
the total cost would he substantially unaltered, it was decided
that hereafter the following parts should be brass or copper
plated before nickeling;
cabinet hardware, exoept cover hinges,
resistance tube bolt and cord loop
horn crane base and clamp screws,
recorder and reproducer guards, Bteel pointer,
swivel plate handle,
feed screw oover and resistance binding post screws.
The following parts are to be japanned instead
of niokel plated as at the present time :
cabinet cover hinges and horn crane bracket complete
exoe nt screws. '
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH steel cabinet.
In view of estimates submitted by outside
parties for the manufacture of the steel cabinet Model, Mr.
Weber was requested to make an estimate of the cost of
production^tools and cabinets here.
PRIMARY BA I TER Y JAR COVERS.
It was agreed that viler ever the numbers of the
Battery have been removed from the jar covers in order to
reduoe stock as was provided at a previous meeting, a small
ridge should be oast on the jar cover to provide a place in
which the label should be placed. This change is not to go into
effect until the jar oover moulds are altered for other reasons.
BBC. lo, 1910,
G. F. SCUlI,.
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i been inaugurated in the Brooklyn Edisoj
Company, and which you will i
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[ENCLOSURE]
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn
December 12, 1910.
T o the Employes of
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn:
It is a matter of congratulation not only to you, but to the
Directors and Officers of the Company that the expansion of the Company’s
business has made it possible to put into effect a plan whereby you become
direct participants in the prosperity of the Company.
The Directors are' now able to recognize in a substantial
manner the faithful services of our employes to whose efficiency and loyalty the
progress of the Company is largely due.
In recognizing in this manner the good service rendered by
our employes, the Company is inaugurating a plan which it is hoped will
stimulate them to habits of thrift and industry and at the same time encourage
even closer co-operation between the Company and its employes.
ANTHONY N. BRADY.
President.
[ENCLOSURE]
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
PROFIT SHARING AND PENSION PLAN
TO THE EMPLOYES:—
pffiriom qprvi Directors of the Company, in recognition of faithful and
"""If se7,, aJ!d for the ““uragement of thrift and investment in the
follow nt°Vhe ?°mpany on the PJrt °f ‘he employes, have authorized the
following plan of profit-sharing and pensions as an addition to the welfare
plans now in operation.
The distribution of these profits and pensions will be in the
of Twe Hi 3 fm7,tteu j be kno'v,n as the Provident Committee, consisting
.?r"lbrtg G»«»i
The Provident Committee shall act by unanimous vote of the
members present at any meeting, and any matters upon which the Committee
is not unanimous shall be determined by the Executive Committee of the
STeTn'n/f fC.rTlee Sha" ch°°Se jts own officers aad Prescribe rules
tor the conduct of the business committed to it, not inconsistent with the
following rules and regulations:
PROFIT-SHARING PLAN:
. „ . . ,, At tbe end °f >7 year 1910, employes will be credited with
a sum out of the profits of the Company s operations for that year, in accord¬
ance with the following schedule:
, e. M i JT° th°Se employes wh° have been in the Company’s service
wo fuH calendar years, a percentage of their salary or wages for the year
Z r,B“" of *• ““ °f di»d»d‘ i»id «" =>pm
s 2£,rs; “ •-*■* *• * p-a -
f.,11 l JT° ,hoSe emPloyes who have been in the Company’s service
four full calendar years, a percentage of their salary or Wages for the year
[ENCLOSURE]
1910, equivalent to three-quarters of the rate of dividends paid on the capital
stock during the year.
To those who have been in the Company’s service five
full calendar years, or more, a percentage of their salary or wages for
the year 1910, equivalent to the full dividend rate paid on the capital stock
during the year.
This profit-sharing plan is adopted for the current year only,
and it will continue from year to year only as the Board of Directors may
adopt it for each year. Provisions herein for more than one year arc
contingent upon the adoption of the plan by the Board of Directors for
subsequent years.
The amount of these credits will be paid in cash to the
Trustees of the Brooklyn Edison Investment Fund to the credit of the
individual employes and shall be subject to the conditions and by-laws of the
said Fund, which are annexed hereto, except as modified by the following
special restrictions:
The sum credited in any year cannot be withdrawn within
three years, except with the consent of the Provident Committee and for one
of the following reasons:
To make payments upon the purchase of a home.
Because of death of the employe.
Unusual necessity in the opinion of the Committee.
All moneys or credits to which any employe would be other¬
wise entitled and which have not previously been subject to withdrawal at
the option of the employe, shall be wholly forfeited by him, and shall revert
to the Company, or if already paid to the Investment Fund, shall revert to
the Fund, in the event that:
Such employe is discharged by the Company for
misconduct; or
Such employe leaves the employment of the Company
without giving the Company one month’s prior notice in
writing, unless the necessity of this notice is waived in
writing by the Company at the time of leaving; or
Such employe without the written consent of the
Committee assigns to any one or attempts to transfer, sell
or encumber any interests he may have in said amounts;
employe snail Decome insolvent o
Ji UdUKrupC.
1. r 7he,Provi<jent Committee may, in its discretion', withhold a
>r all of the share of profit to which an employe might otherwise be
[ENCLOSURE]
entitled, if, for any reason, the Committee may be of the opinion that such
employe ought not to receive or have the benefit of the same; and if any sum
shall be so withheld by the Committee, such employe shall in no event have
any interest in the sum so withheld.
In case of the forfeiture of any employe’s profits, the
Committee may, in their discretion, give the same to the family of said
employe.
Any employe who leaves the employment of the Company
and gives one months notice of his intention to do so, shall be entitled to
withdraw the share of profit theretofore credited to him at the expiration of six
months from the date of giving such notice, after which period of six months
the share of such employe if not withdrawn will cease to participate in
dividends or profits of the Investment Fund.
1 , oAfte,r three success!ve annual sums have been credited to any
employe, the Provident Committee will, on request of such employe, deliver
stock certificate for the number of full shares covered by such credit less the
amount of the last preceding year’s credit, at a price which the Provident
Committee shall determine to be the average cost price of the stock held by
the Brooklyn Edison Investment Fund.
Upon the death of any employe, his profits may be immedi¬
ately withdrawn by his family, next of kin or legal representative, conditioned
upon the presentation of proofs satisfactory to the Committee.
, i , , .No restrictions are placed upon the withdrawal of dividends
declared by the Investment Fund upon, the profit-sharing investments
of the employes; and none of the restrictions placed upon the profit-sharing
investments shall apply in any way to the moneys paid into the Fund
directly by the employes.
The Company expressly reserves and will exercise its right
and privilege to discharge from its service at any time any employe, when its
interests so warrant, without liability for any share of profits.
PENSIONS
The Provident Committee shall have power to make and
enforce rules and regulations to determine the eligibility of employes to receive
pension allowances, to fix the amount of such allowances and to prescribe the
conditions under which such allowances shall be paid, subject to the following
Any employe who attains or who shall have atta
age of sixty-five years, and who shall have been
ten years continuously in the service of the Cc
may be pensioned either at his option or that
Company.
ined the
impany,
of the
[ENCLOSURE]
Any employe who has been at least ten years
continuously in the service, and who, in the opinion of
the Provident Committee, has become unfitted for full
duty, may be retired and pensioned. Any such employe
may make application for pension or be recommended by
his employing officer for retirement.
Pension allowances authorized are to be computed upon the
following basis:
For each year of continuous service, not less than I per cent,
nor more than 2 per cent, of the average pay received for the five years next
preceding retirement, provided that no pension shall exceed 50 per cent, of the
wages paid -at_the-timc-of -retirement ; except. that pensions of employes whose
annual salaries exceed $2,500 shall be fixed by the Executive Committee of
the Company.
... , Tta Board of Directors of this Company reserve the right to
establish a new and lower basis of pension allowances, if at any time it shall
be found that the basis adopted will create demands in excess of $25,000 per
year. Notice of such new basis, however, will be given before the first of
the calendar year dunng which it may be decided to put the same into effect.
i .• , „F!ensi0?, allo'™nces when authorized pursuant to these
regulations shall be paid monthly during the life of the beneficiary, provided
however, that in case of misconduct, allowances may be withheld or
disconhnued at the option of the Provident Committee.
Company.
No assignment of pensions shall be valid or binding on the
No action of the Board of Directors in establishing a system
o pensions, and no action of the Provident Committee in the administration
of the Pension Fund, shall be construed as giving to any employe the right
to be retained in the service, or any right or claim to any pension allowance.
j ■ Comp,any exPress,y reserves and will exercise its right
and privilege to discharge from its service at any time any employe, when its
interests so warrant, without liability for pension.
December 12, 1910.
ANTHONY N. BRADY,
President.
VV1? k-l. Dickson,
Personal & Confidential.
Decembe^
P. Hiller Esij.,
Secretary, Thomas Edison’s laboratory,
Orange, Hew Jersey. U.S.A*
My dear Harry,
I am taking this opportunity, of wishing you and your
dear ones a happy Hew Year, which I hope you will also convey
to your sister at the same time.
I should he glad if you would give Mr. Edison a friend¬
ly warning in regard to two individuals, in whom I have no con¬
fidence primarily our old friend (?) Mr. Stewart ^f’chilian
and now of Motorcar fame, who has behaved disgraoefully here to
friends who started him and his inventions and has left them all
in the luroh. I fancy he has left for America with the idea
of calling on you, through the instrumentality of his friend
Mr. Dick, however a word in Season will be all that is necessary
as you and Mr. Edison were good enough to warn me about the
same gentleman. The other party is a Mr. Reeser, who is an out
and out fraud ; and a man sb far as I understand ( entirely without
Ifihdipla, he pretends to have discovered a secret prooess for
making a non-inflammable Celluloid, 1 enclose a sorap whioh he
left here some time ago, and which ( he inadvertently let out, he
had sent a sample ofjto Mr. Edison this year. It strikes me
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thia prooess is a faka and probably pirate\ I could have bought
this for £35. if x had wanted to. y0u could compare the sample
I am sending with the one he sent, if he has done so.
You will understand that this information must be strict¬
ly private between you and Mr. Edison.
With kind regards and best wishes.
Yours truly.
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NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
MEETING OF THE MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE
HELD DEC. 29th, 1910,
PRESENT: Messrs, Dyer, Wilson, Weber and Soull,
PROPOSED BUILDIHG FOR PHI ARM BATTERIES.
Mr. Weber presented plans oovering a proposal to
move !:fo, 17 Building aoross Columbia Street to be converted
to the uses of the primary Battery manufacture now carried
on at Silvor Lake, Mr, Weber was requested to ascertain
whether or not a proper water supply for the manufacture could
be obtained here before prerenting the plans to Mr. Edison,
EXPKhIMEHT AD FURNACE FOR PRIMARY BATTERY PLATES:
A suggestion to purchase from the Rookwell Furnace
Co., a small furnace for experimental use on battery plates
for v^-j.OO, as covered in their letter of Deo, 1st, 1910,
was considered, and it was decided that such a furnace should
not be purchased at this time.
HI AMP BATTERY ZINC MOULDS:
Mr. Saltzman reported on the progress of a work
on the sample Hiamp Batteries now in progress of manufacture,
and it was decided that two n ew moulds for Hiamp Zincs should
be made up at once.
suspension bolt, "bsoo" battery:
A model of a new type of suspension bolt for flat jar
oovors, and to meet R. S. A. Speeif inations, including a four-pronged
piece and flat threaded nut was submitted, and adopted for all types
whore a rigidly fixed suspension bolt was required, and also for
use in connection with flat covered jar renewals.
P^RIi’O HATCH fOR iilltf PLAUB;
Jir. Scull reported the necessity for an additional
perforator in the Jilin Plant in view of the foot that the pre¬
sent equipment was barely sufficient to meet the needs and gave
no lee-way for repairs on the msohino3. A report was submitted
showing that the last two Jronoh Perforating nohinos cost us,
when the oost of alterations was included, #1730,00, A proposal
of the Bell A. Howell company of Chicago for a perforator giving
twice the capacity for something less thun #10 0.00 was con¬
sidered, and Hr. Scull was instructed to take up the matter with
tho Bell & Howell people to ascertain just exactly what their
bid covered, and if the price woe reasonable to proceed with
its purchase.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH HKARIRO TUBE:
A suggestion to attach those hearing tubes to the
hinge body by means of a clamping screw was considered, and
decided to ascertain the cost involved before proceeding further
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH HORN CRANE:
A suggestion to ohange from the present pin con¬
struction to a slotted construction in the ball joint of the
horn orano was adopted, but bofore adopting the further sug¬
gestion that the horn crane be made of heavier stook, it was
decided that the Engineering Department Bhould make up a model
of a longer orano, as approved last meeting, of the heavier material.
BUSINS' S PHONOGRAPH ATTACH! PTI'T CORD SEPARATOR:
A suggestion to place a separator on the pin tips
of the D. C. attachment cord v/here they enter the resistance vma
adopted.
BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH SPEAKIING TUBS:
A model of a new mouth piece for the Business Phono¬
graph Speaking Tube, as well sb a new crane support for it was
presented, but it was decided to ascertain exaotly the cost in¬
volved before proceeding further with it. It was suggested that
the matter be taken up with the Tea Troy Company, to see what they
could manufacture the mouth pieces for.
COVER FOB P, K. MACHINES :
It was decided to adopt as a covering for the K.
Heads a large bag according to the model submitted by the Engi¬
neering Department, sufficiently large to cover the whole mecha¬
nism, including the upper film box. The matter is to bo taken
up with
Department to determine the best quality
o used for this purpose.
material
irding to price which could bi
TRADE MARK PLATE D1 OR P. _ K. M .CHINES /Mil) PHOHOflRAPffa ;
It was deoidea that th present niokel-plated,
hand made, trade-mark plates should he abolished so far as
the Idelia Machines are oono'ornod. Mo trade-mark plate
whatever is to bo attached to these maohines. The present
type of plate is to be oontinued on suoh special Triumph
lUohines as are boIc'. A special ohemically engraved plate
is to bo mode up for the P, K. Machine s.
G. fAsoULL.
Secretary.
Deo. 30th, 1910,
1910. Edison, T.A. - Articles (D-10-17)
This folder contains correspondence requesting Edison to write articles,
correspondence relating to books and articles about Edison and his inventions,
and letters from journalists seeking to interview Edison or soliciting his
statements for publication. Among the items for 1910 are numerous letters
pertaining to the two-volume biography, Edison: His Life and Inventions, by
Frank L. Dyer and Thomas C. Martin. Also included are letters regarding a
proposed biography of Edison for young readers, items concerning the sale of
a notebook of escapement drawings executed by Edison in 1872,
correspondence from Hudson Maxim and Samuel Insull, and a draft by Edison
of an article on "the flexible wealth of the United States."
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of requests for statements and interviews
that received only a perfunctory response from Edison. Also not selected are
copies of letters to Maxim praising his book, The Science of Poetry.
Our paper has about 80,000 subscribers , chiefly
young men and women, and I intend to U3e the number appearing
ju3t before your next birthday, February 11, for a series of
inspiring incidents from your life. I have a fine photograph
of you in your library, which I shall use on the cover of the
number. I want to make that number express something of the
profound admiration for your work that X have had from boy¬
hood, and bring to our young folks something of the stimulus
which your life has always brought to me.
I very muoh hope that you will send some greeting, short
or long, to these young men and women through that number. They
would all value it, as I certainly should. It would be especial
ly helpful if you would tell them about some of the influences
that have moved your life to its development and contributed
to your success, but any advice you might give them relative to
their work and to making the most of themselves would be grate¬
fully received and appreciated. Will you not do this, for the
sake of that great company of young people?
Sincerely yours,
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Jon. 25, 1010.
Door itx'. Wells:
If ’Kioto la any noosnco I oon givo that nAgfet bo
of value to your young people, it would bo this: to to inter¬
ested deeply in v;h tc;vor thoy unuort . ho on nay to doing "t tho
r.som.cnt; to disiiiac from their minds everything oloo tut tho ono
thine ' <W ' v>. doin'; at tho tino, and to thin]: only of th. t ono
thing in all ito bouringc, frorn every view point, and to' to
met or of it. Don’t mind th-. oloot, tut hoop t it and lot
nature indicato tho' necessity for root. After rooting, go
at tho worh age in with to sane intoroot . Sho world pays .
tic prices to r.ion who I:now-
Co aoeonplish things there t&wt first to on idea of
possibility, then tho watchword must to "CRT’; and hoop on
trying with onthuoiaoa and a thorough belief in cm -ability to
cuccood. If you aro convinced that a certain tMng o n to
dona, nover nind what tho world says to tho contrary, tut
try,- osrporinont, if you r.ro roe.lly intcrcstod.
forgot ontiroly tho word "disappointment". Fail¬
ures, so-called, arc tut firmer posts point Inf; out the right
direction to those who aro willlnc to loam.
So far as I ocn soo, .thooo prinoiploo have influonood
no in tho yoarc th t bftY.e^BMgeQA., Ip., .addition, I have always
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ooliovod that hard void; and a living $qiv vi\X intcroot :ln ovory-
thine that ml:oo for taunan procrooa v/ill sb1:o a man or womcm
vnlunhlc to thonoolvoa nd to tho world.
V.fith crootineo and -11 yood vdohoo to your yo unc
poonlo, I rorr.ln,
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Anoc : . V/ollo,
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[FROM FRANK L. DYER]
O^Z-t-eJLc.. I’KVNI- L. I,vi!lt
MEMORANDUM
. 1,1.80 _
January 20, 1910,
^r. -locdov/croft ,
I hand you horov/itli lot tor datod Jon. 0 from I Jr.
i.'iebott to Mr, Stovons, and if you cun got tho timo I wish you v/ould
proparo a short article on fir. Edison for tho magazine roforred to.
Defer once night ho rnndo to our hook. You know, of o our so, that Kr/
JMison lias mot lira. Diaz and I tliink President Dias also, so that
a pleasant roforonco to his friendly intorost in Mexican matters
might be made. Of course, if you havo not the time, thon I v/ould
not bother about it bocauno it really is not vory important, but
thoro might bo some slight advertising value in the article, and v;o
aro vory anxious to do all we can to build up our Mexican business.
ELD : GVII
January 2 6, 1910,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq,.,
Edison's laboratory
Orange, N. J.
My Dear Edison:
I am very anxious, indeed, to get an article
signed by you for "Popular Electricity" on any subject in connection
with the art which you may choose. I spoke to Mr. T. C. Martin
about the matter the last time I was in ITew York, and X also spoke
to hi|ii about it v/hen he was here the other day. If you aro willing
to do me thiB personal favor, Mr. Martin will undertake to write
the article, and I am sure he would write one which would be
satisfactory to you and which you v/ould not have any objection to
signing. X have asked Hr. Martin to see you again about it before
you go to Elorida.
I hope your trip South will do you lots of good, and
with kind regards, believe me
Yours very sincerely
't
/ New York, March 2ist, X910.
vtf ; JC' V />>
dear Mr Dyer: «■■ V »
. , Y°u have sent me the manuscript of the pro-
ll?5®d Sh3pte£,?n pettent infringements in your forthcoming
hlle of Mr. Edison, and you ask me to make suggestions. That
is always a delicate task, hut you so urgently request me to
give my views and to do so v/ith entire frankness, that I will¬
ingly comply. Presumably this Life will take a permanent
ef,n£J? f8el thtit d11 of UB wh0 hrtVe teen
i-entified v/ith Mr. Edison should render you whatever aid you
1 h*Te read over this chapter on infringe-
ments three times, as follows: Eirst, to get a general view
of it; next, to see how it would probably strike an average
reader; and, tnira, to decide what criticism to make. As you
appear to want me to find fault rather than to pay compliments,
I shall spend no time in telling you of the good points in the
chapter, but shall proceed at once to criticize.
i After all three readings of your chapter, I
felt that somwthdns was wanting. I said to myself: "The Author
has^ stated how many Edison patent suits were brought, and how
mucn they cost, and that the most important of all was the lamp
patent suit, but he has not clearly stated just what it was all
tr™tr to me thdt the record lacks completeness
in details; that the interest of the Reader is excited but not
satisfied; and that this most material chapter has not the
elements of historical value.
4 x 4. -r.4,4 Your book mUBt of necessity discuss this sub¬
ject of Edison patent infringements. You cannot take the time
to go into every infringement, therefore a selection or choice
must be made. I think that in making your choice, you have
done wisely to select the one great invention of all, the
rilament lamp. But having selected that one invention, why do
you not go into it more fully? Why not tell just what Mr..
Edison was seeking for whan he made that invention, what the
invention was to accomplish, what kinds of experiments led up
to it, and how he covered it by the lamp patent?
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I suggest that you take one or two important
things connected with the lamp, and enlarge on them. Take the
filament for instance. Recite the imperative elements of a
good filament, also how hard it wub to find it, and, taking the
bamboo ae a Bample, tell of the worldwide xasearches to get the
best fibrous growth, including Mr. Edison's bamboo farm in the
Orient and McGowan’s dangerous quest in South America. Take
also the method of manufacturing the lamp, including the almost
insuperable difficulties, first, to make it at all, and then to
make it cheaply and show how from small beginnings it grew into
a vast industry.
I mention, these two points merely to show in
Part what details are needed. They are full of interest, and
belong in the Life of Edison as matters of historical value in
the history of the Art. f ,,
^ " v, Ano-thar—top-ic-whioh -I— th-ink -you should- d-is cues
mor-e.-fully is the reason for the delay in beginning and uushing
suits for infringements ^f , the ,, lamp patent!. In my official
position as President of'theAlight Company' I became the target,
along with Mr. Edison, for censure from the stockholders and
others on account of this delay, and I well remember how deep
the feeling was. In view of the facts that a final injunction
on the lamp patent was not obtained until the life of the patent
was near its end, and next, that no damages in money were ever
paid by the guilty"? ringers, it has been generally believed
that Mr. Edison selfishly sacrificed the interest of his stock¬
holders when he delayed the prosecution of patent suits and gave
all his time and energies to rnanuf actur ing. This belief was
the stronger because the manufacturing enterprises belonged
personally to Mr. Edison, and not to his Company. /?:„/ «le. ^ach.
It— is ceasy to dispel this false belief *,.and"-I
think your chapter on infringements should do it.-. Moreover, .it
will give you a chance, if indeed you have not already done so
elB.ewhere in your book, to\put ih$o permanent recor’d a sketchv
of the beginning of what dx$ now'-vast r&n'ufac.turing industries.
fThe Edison inventions were not only a lamp;
theyAwer-e also an entire system of central stations. Such a
thing was new to the world, and the apparatus as well as the
manufacture thereof, wub equally new. Boilers, engines,
dynamos, motors, distribtion mains, meters, house wiring, safety
devices, lampB and lamp fixtures, all were vital parts of the
whole system. Most of them were utterly novel and unknown to the
arte, and all of them required quick, and , I may say, revolu¬
tionary thought and invention. The firm of Babcock & Vfilcox
gave aid on the hollers; Armington & Sims undertook the engines;
but everything else was abnormal. No factories in the land
would take up the manufacture. I remember for instance, our
interviews with Messrs. Mitchell. Vance & Company, the leading
manufacturers of house gas lighting fixtures such as brackets
and chandeliers. They had no faith in electric lighting and
rejected all our overtures to induce them to take up the new
business of making electric light fixtures. As regards other
Parts of the Edison system, notably the Edison dynamo, no such
machines had ever existed, there was no factory in the world
equipped to make them, and, most discouraging of all, the very
scientific principles of their construction were still vague
and exper imental.
What was to be done? Mr. Edison has never
been greater than when he met and solved this crisis. "If there
"are no factories," he said, "to make my inventions, I will build
" the factories myself. Since capital is timid, I will raise
11 and eupply it. The issue is factories or death." ,
. . . . . . A
‘'Mr. Edison invited the cooperation of his
leading stockholders. They lacked confidence or did not care
to increase their investments. . He was forced to go on alone.
The chain of Edison Shops were'" then created. . fust, how far you
may think -best to describe these, bold enterpAses,'. yoii will de-
olde, \but,\to met it\ is all ra'ostN inhere dtinfe, and I- think the
reedrdVshoiild be -raadei
<^3y far the most perplexing of these new manu¬
facturing problems was the lamp. Not only was it a new industry,
one without shadow of prototype, but the mechanical devices for
making the lamps, and to some extent the very machines to make
those devices, were to be invented. All of this was done by the
courage, capital and invincible energy and genius of the Great
vfnventor. ^ _
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But Mr.. Edison could not create these great
and diverse industries and at the same time give requisite at¬
tention to litigation. He could not start and develop the the
new and hard business of electric lighting and yet spare one
hour to pursue infringers. One thing or the other must wait.
All agreed that it must be the litigation. And right there, a
lasting blow was given to the prestige of the Edison patents.
The delay was translated as meaning lack of confidence; and the
alert infringer grew strong in courage and capital. Moreover,
and what was the heaviest blow of all, he had time, thus unmolest¬
ed, to get a good start.
It saeiU3 to 7ae, in view of the .facts hov/ re¬
cited, that , as I have already stated, you should go fully into
this matter of the delay in beginning and pressing suits against
infringers. . .
In looking hack on those days and scrutinizing
them through the years, I am impressed by the greatness, the
solitary greatness I may say, of Mr. Edison. Wo all felt then
that we were of importance, and that our contribution of effort
and zeal were vital. I can see now, however, that the beBt of us
was nothing but the fly on the wheel. Suppose anything had
happened to Edison. All would have been chaos and ruin. To him,
therefore, be the glory, if not the prof it.'' ( g)
/ n j ,i
' ITow I-wani-to say a word about the Goebel case.
I took personal charge of running dow^.thie man and hiB preten¬
tions, in the section of the city where he lived and among his
old neighbors. They were a typical EaBt side lot. Ignorant,
generally stupid, incapable of long memory, but ready to bblige
a neighbor and a fellow Israelite and to turn an easy dollar by
putting a cross mark at the bottom of a forthcoming frddndly
affidavit. I can say in all truth and justice that their testi¬
mony via. s utterly false, and that the lawyers who took it must
have known it.
The Goebel case emphasizes two defects in the
court procedure in patent cases. One is that they may be spun
out almost interminably, even, possibly, to the end of the life
of the patent: the other is that the judge who decides the case
does not see the witnesses. That adverse decision at St. Louis
would never have been made if the court could have seen the men
wh o swore for Goebel. When I met Mr. Fish on his return from
St. Louis after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly
that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of
educating the court. '"^2
What you say of the Goebel case is good, per¬
haps the best thing in your chapter. Mr. Lowrey'a pickerel
Btory I remember well. It was admirably done and convulsed all
and especially me. But is it not too long and immaterial for
your chapter? On the other hand, Judge Colt’s opinion is valu¬
able, and you should keep it.
My letter is growing too long, I fear, and I
must stop. Probably what I have written has been already set
forth, more or leBB, in your book. I give you nothing new,
In closing let me express my best wishes to
you and your associates for the success of your work.
Very truly yours*
Prank L. Dyer, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey,
Golumbus, Ohio,
April 18, 1010.
T.'r. Thos. A. Edison,
East Orange, TT. J.
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M.y dear Sir:- I
Some months ago, the Dispatch newspaper office was destroyed
by fire. Y.'ith characteristic Amorican energy and enterprise, the
Dispatch has just completed a beautiful stone building which will
soon be dedicated exclusively to the uses of this nowspapor. V/e have
determined to colebrato this event with a special edition devoted to
the advancement and wollfare of Columbus and Ohio and the history,
past, present and future, of our people, industries and institutions.
Y,'e would be pleased and honored to receive from you at yotir earliest
convenience some brief expression over your signature, suitable for
publication in this edition. Some message to the people of Ohio or
Columbus, some thought appropriate to the occasion or perhaps a
congratulatory message, as you will.
YYith expressions of high respect and thanking you in advance
for your courtesy and kindness, I am.
Very sincerely yours.
Editor.
April 18, 1910.
My dear Mr, Edison: -
Mr. O.J. Phillips, who is a reporter on the
Philadelphia "North American," is desirous of interviewing
you about your storage battexy, for an article for that
paper. Ac he onoe had an interview with me about some of
my work for the same paper, and as the whole deal was eminent¬
ly satisfactory and courteotisly done, I am taking the liberty
of giving him a letter of introduction to you.
Thanking you in advance for any courtesy you
may s how. him ,
I remain,
Yours faithfully.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
Introducing
Mr. O.J. Phillips
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, : ,
Vest Orange, >1. J,
Dear Mr. Edison:
On February 17 we sent you a type¬
written copy of an intervievf with you^which we under¬
stood had been written with your consent) for your re¬
vision and any expansion which might seem to you to
add to the attractiveness and breadth of the very in¬
teresting statement of your views along certain lines
of invention.
As we have not heard from you after the lapse of
several weeks, we are wondering if the package failed
to reach,,you, or has been mislaid. If you would like
to have more time to consider the matter, please fol¬
low your inclination; but if you have finished with
the manuscript please return it so that we may place
it on our schedules for as early publication as pos¬
sible .
Thanking you for your courteous attention to the
matter , I am
-C <£rC .
Yours sincerely'
Pennsylvania Packet, 1771: Daily Advertiser, 1784
United States Gazette, 1789: The oldest Daily
Newspaper in America Philadelphia
Thomas A .Edison, Esq.;
vj" CvVv'wC
My.
Llewellyn Park, Orange,
dear Sirs
(Uaj
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The NOSTH AMFJpCAN Punday Magazine and Syndicate is very desirous
of„ 55 ’Tlth you on the s^Ject of your storage battery
and the difficulties and possibilities of electrical storage. I had *
hoped to see you sooner, but learned during a recent visit to New Tori:
that you were in Florida and were not expected home until to-day.
Can you make it -convenient to receive me at some time in the near
...future?. Ve, will esteem l.t • a. great’ kindness, )’and It shall endeavor to make
■ the report of the interview and 'account of the visit
nothing better.
accurate, if
I enclose two letters
have not found their time
of introduction , from some friends who
quite wasted or their kindness misplaced.
Very truly yours,
Punday department .
April 26, 1910.
Editor Colunbuo Biswitch,
Columbus, Ohio.
Boar Sir:
Ac a nativo of Ohio, I i0Qrn T/i1;h pieacmro o£ tho GQn_
Fiction of tho beautiful hone in which tho Dispatch v;ill no bo
housod. Hloins os you have over disoouracomonto and hardshipc,
it is ojiayootoriotio of tho truo Amcrioan spirit of onorcy and
ontorpriso. I concratulato you most sinocroly.
Yours very truly,
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Mr Thomas A., Edison,
20 Fifth Avenue,
Now York City.
Sear Sir:-
We have written you on two different occasions
asking you to favor us with a sitting for a photographic
negative from which prints adapted to the reproduction
process might he had. Up to date we have not received a
reply to either of these communicsrions.
If you are disposed to oblige us will you kindly
call at the Marceau Studio, #258 Fifth Avenue,
(between 28th and 29th Streets), for five to ten minutes,
We would very muoh appreciate the favor.
Very respectfully yours,
New York Press Art Bureau,
!
May 5th xo.
c. C. Buel, Esq.,
Associate Editor,
Century Magazine,
Union Square, IT. Y.
Dear Sir:
I am so very Busy that I really had no
time to correct the article, it reads rather poorjby,
so you Better fix the grammar up. ' "Writing is out of
my line.
signed-- Edison.
original sent to C. C. Buel in Mr. E. hand-writ *g Y.P.
American Machinist
A PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF MACHINE CONSTRUCTION
505 PEARL STREET NEW YORK.
Mr. H. Filllller, Seoy. ,
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange ,
s=-.3r>
interview
Dear Sir:-
Tou will probably re^ll onr
the early part of the year in reference to
with Mr. Edison in order to obtain a summary of some o£L^
his patent experiences similar to those whioh we have
presented of Mr. H. Ward leonard's work.
Your advices were to the effect that Mr. Edison’
signified his willingness tc grant us this interview some
time after his return from Florida, in order to gather
the necessary material, and it is therefore the purpose
of this letter tfl reju^f it ^ be conveniently arranged
to have me call sometime the early part of the
June 6th.
Yours very truly.
AMERICAS MAOHI]
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June 15th 1P10.
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange , N . J .
hear Sir:
We would approciate if you would inform us whether
you have connected with your labratory.any engineer ,,,,, .
competent to write a work upon storage battery engined- f 6 19 111 ,
ing with whom wo might arrange for such a work. r‘ ** *
Vory truly yours,
HOBSON AND ADEE
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T. C. Martin, Eaq. ,
29 West 39th Street,
New York City.
Sear Sir:
Enclosed herewith find letter from Mr. Trank Marahall
White dated June 23rd 1910, with Mr. Edison's notation on it
to you. After you have finlahed reading the same will you
kindly return to this office , ao that it can he placed in our
files?
Thanking you, I am,
Secretary.
YourB very truly,
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'You may perhaps be able to recall the fact that I wrote
to you on the 23rd of last March, to Fort Myers, Florida, ^
with regard to a project I had in ihind for a Boy's life of
Edison - which project you referred to Mr.F.L.Dyer, co-author
with Mr.T.C .Martin of the authoratative Biography that the
Harpers are to publish in the fall.
Mr. Dyer did not approve of my original idea for a Boy's
Life, but with his consent and that of Mr.Duneka of Harper &
Bros, I made arrangements to write 4 ahort articles for The
Saturday Evening Post, on 4 periods of your youthful career,
( 1 - Childhood at Milan and Port Huron; 2 - Experiences
while trainboy and learning telegraphy; 3 - As a telegraph
operator during the Civil War; 4 - Experiences in Boston and
New York, and up to the time of the sale of invention to the
Gold & Stock Telegraph Co.), which ithe Harper people beleived
would be a big ad. for the forthcoming Biography.
In pursuance of this project, on Monday, the 13th ins't,-
I called on Mr.T.C. Martin, (to whom you had referred me for
information when I was preparing the article on the invention
of the incandescent light for The Outlook,) for enlightenment
on certain points in the biography, and he told me that i
would find additional material that he had been unable to use
in your own story of your early life, the MS. of which, in
your handwriting, was in the custody of a Mr.Meadowcroft , at
the v/orks in Orange. I applied to Mr. Dyer for permission to
examine this MS.; and, going to Orange at his invitation for
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2
that purpose", on Friday the 17th insrt, I was naturally sur¬
prised to learn that Mr. Mart in now objected to my writing tie
articles in question. An appointment was, however, made for
Tuesday, the 21st ins't, when I was to meet Mr. Dyer and Mr.
Martin at the latter's office in Hew York. Mr. Dyer did not
keep the appointment, but Mr.Meadowcroft , who came on his be¬
half, represented him as upholding Mr. Martin's objections to
the Post articles, Mr.Martin further informing me that it hal
been the intention all along during the preparation of the
Biography, (in which Mr.Meadowcroft participated, ) for him to
write a Boy's Life of Edison. Why he did not inform me of
this at first, I do not know.
I had intended to drop the matter rather than bother you
about it, in spite of the fact that I have 3pent a great deal,
of time in research for material in the libraries and else¬
where. os well as having been forced to reject other commis¬
sions for work, but I find that I shall be put in a most com¬
promising position with Mr.Lorimer, the editor of the Post,
and with Mr. Davis, of Munsey's, who introduced me to him, if
I am unable to carry out the proposition I have made and that
has been accepted. It would look very much as tho I had been
four- flushing, altho I really held the cards, and the time
had passed for questioning the deal.
The articles I wish to write would certainly^-with the
immense circulation of The Saturday Evening Post, be a tre¬
mendous advertisement for the Biography which would come out
immediately afterward, and I do not see why it should not
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3
have the same effect on Mr.ivieadowcroft's book. In any event
I do not feel justified in dropping the matter and cheapening
myself with $he members of my profession, without an pppeal
to you. It is scarcely necessary to say that I shall not sisib
write the articles without your permission.
7/ith regards, I am
Yours very truly „
Tliomsa A. Edison Esq.
Orange, H.J.
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[ENCLOSURE]
T. A. Edison, Enquire,
Orange,
Now Jersey.
Doar Mr, Edison:
I have rocoivod today, through Mr, Miller, Mr.
F, M. White's letter to you of Juno 23, with regard to his project
of a boys' book on your life and another project of a soriee of
articles for the Saturday Evening Post. I speak of these ns two
projects, although in his conversation with mo, M«\ White has left the
very definite impression that he regards them as one projeot.
It is diffioult to discuss thiB matter in detail, bb it is
already badly snarled up, and thero are oortain statements in his
letter whioh are not in striot aooord with the faots. I am sending
this lotter, however, in the care of Mr. Meadoworof t , who, I beliovo,
is familiar with all the details, so far as he and I have been able
to make them out.
When Mr. White oalled on me on Juno 13, ho did not say a
word about any previous correspondence with you, but gave me the
very distinot impronsion that, with the co-operation and oonsont of
Harpers and of Mr. Dyer, ho was getting these artioles ready, with
the underlying scheme of a book. I was certainly surprised to find
a sot of the early proofs in his hands, but the faot that he had them
tendod to oonfirm his statements. In reply to Bomo of his questions
I informed him that other material was available at the laboratory,
and was in the hands of Mr. Meadoweroft and Mr. Dyer, and that it
would be proper for him to apply for it there. After ho left mo
I began to think the conversation over, and.having very serious doubtB
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aa to parts of It, folt it my duty to writs to tho laboratory, and
I ooimnunioatad with Mr. Meadnworoft on tho subject thnt night. I
must Btnte moat omphatioally that I did not inform Mr. Whita on his
aooond visit that I was contemplating a boyhood life. I havo never
had any suoh intention, but I am free to oonfaBB that during the past
three years from time to time in diaoussing tho progress of the book,
two ideas have emerged* One of these was suoh a boyhood lifo, which
in all probability Mr. Moadoworoft would write, and the other was a
lu
laoturo for Ohafauqua assemblies whioh I might deliver, alone or with
Mr. Meadoweroft. We pushed those two ideas, howover, to the back¬
ground until tho big book was finished and out of the way. It
would appear, from what has ooourred since, that Mr. White hit upon
the dame idea muoh later, and that, in order to oarry it out, he made
use not only of work which had already been done by us, but would re¬
quire more material, now in our hands. There roally does not seem
any good reason why wo should favor Mr. White to this extant, and I
might mention that both Mr. Moadoworoft and myself had already volun¬
tarily given him a great deal of holp with his Outlook article some
monthB ago. I might add, in this connection, that Mr. ’White has
made no offer or suggestion of any royalties on those articles, or
for his book, but Harpers have had an agreement with Mr. Dyer and
myself that if any of tho book was used in their magazines we were to
bo paid for suoh articles. Mr. White has represented himself to mo
as in some kind of vague way oonneotod with the Harpers, and it would .
seem that if he oould thus £et any of the matter from time to time by
just asking for it, he oould work over any parts of the book that took
hi a fancy,
I have a very decided objection to this Bort of thing, hnd
I feol sure that Mr* Dyor must entertain the same objection, while I
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Mr. Edison - 3.
am certainly annoyod that you should have any kind of bother about it.
one Of my ideas has been in preparing a definite biography, that you
would be relievod from further bother and worry of this kind by mis-
eollaneous writers who - however facile and well-intontioned - are
not acquainted with the subject at all, and have no knowledge of eleo-
trioity or its development.
It is possible that the articles in the Saturday Evening
Post might help the book, although that is perhaps a doubtful quostion.
A year or two ago the Soientifio Amorioan oame to us with exaotly the
same kind of proposition, and used the ohapter on the value of your
inventions to the world. Mr. Dyer and I furnished the ohapter, with
the understanding that there would be compensation for its use, but we
never have received a cent, the Soientifio American claiming that there
was some kind of undorotanding or arrangement with you whioh plaood the
material at their disposal, Rathor than bother you about the matter
we simply let it go. 1 do not believe that the publication of the
ohapter 4n the Soientifio Amorioan will help us to sell a singlo oopy,
but it was just such an experience as this that has made me cautious and
suspioious when similar projects oome along.
X hope you will forgive mo for this long letter, but I wish
to say that personally, after what has happened, I should greatly prefer
that Mr. White had nothing to do with the book or with the use of any
part of it, but I am perfectly willing to abide by what you and Mr. Ryer
dooide is for the best. Believe me
lours truly, •*
Secretary.
[ENCLOSURE]
June 28,
1910.
W. H. Mendoworoft , Esquiro,
Legal Department,
Edison Laboratories,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Mr. Meadoworoft:
Please note the enoloeed. I am getting
pre'ty hot under the oollar ovor this White business, because oaoh
time Mr. White makes some ns* statements whioh are not true, or vrhioh
are subjeot to doubt.
I notioo he says in this lottor that he has spent a great
deal of time in research. All I oan say is that his inquiries to
me - sb probably to yourself, as well as his Outlook article - betray
an utter absence of resoaroh, and that whatever was authentio he secured
from yourself or me or well authenticated matter already in print. Nor
do 1 believe for one minute that this has interfered with any other
commissions.
I dislike to stand in the way of any man who 1b earning his
living by writing, but when I think of the throe years of serious work
that X have put myself on this book, to Bay nothing of what you and Mr.
in-
Dyor havo done, I feel stronglyAdisposod to have people oomo in and make
use of it in tho way proposed. And yet, having said that, I am per¬
fectly willing to do whatever Mr. Edison wishes! as, after all, X am
not writing his life merely to make a little money.
With regards.
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Mr» Moadcnoroft - 8.
P. S. - I would return herewith also the White lette^and ray unsw»r to
it, but, as you know, I BOnt them yesterday to Mr. Hitohoook. If you
think I could help matters at all by coming out to the laboratory, I
would do so on Wednesday afternoon; but I am going away Thursday morning ,
and am up to my nook in work.
Thm
<G III M S STIAN II IE RA I, ID
LOUIS KLOPSCH, Editor a Proprietor
Dour Mr. EdiBOn:
M,
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days with yoijj^otting na&g,?Ial fpfr 4
iron raino tahich appearM/in McClure^: Magazj
suppose yctyhavo for; w'" “
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occurred to me /that ’.7ft might/'
)>'e able to/SSoo a jshfcirt ^'article cdjpe‘ernin{-
./Sometime ago we pitted a shorJ|fffote t
of concr’^’^ houses and -.ve l»vyreceiv<
quifjete concerning* it. ICSSu have any
you wfilild car* to send mflffl would WVvs
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to com ..
informati\p which
'very glad to receive/
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fibtr you upch/more E eWAj.1 r o ubj o c t:g;.*f o r /
Herald vmch has/a .very vade c ire ul^iiofts’
American Newspaper Associ^
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Orange , N . J . W
■D9£u' sir*
In t ho course of hr. •?rt icla-frfbi'ch'
I an writ ing for the "Technical TToAIbS Mr.gai
zina" of Chicago I havo menf lon«I£Whfl ,
wrk of an assistant of yoniusM.v, /
Clarence Sally, who lost his life in ^
carrying out researches in X-rays. 1
This article tells of t he heroic sacrifice ■
made in the cause of science and medicine.
Can you tell me where i can obtain a
photograph of Hr. Deity, or have you one
that you own loan me? The best care
will be taken of it and I shall be
very much obliged to you for any
assistance you nay be willing to render
ra« in honoring the memory of one of
many heroes of science.
'Pfto+ocjt'a^ifv S-e-icf
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Mr. Arthur B. Reeve,
285 Fifth Ave.,
New York City.
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24 1910
Mr. Thor, as
My dear sir;
_ IdiBon,
Valley Road k Ia3coBi.de i.ve. , »
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I am very desirous of obtSEui:!
Newark, N. J., — August 25, 1910 . _ ip;
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ig an interview. with, you _
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invention. My woman), Edftor, ^Ki as Car-
riok who ia a very capable young newspaper lady lias been "designated
by me to obtain from you this interview.
for my paper regarding your r
I am enclosing clipping from the Star which appeared on
the evening of August 23rd. It is on this subject that I am desirous
of obtaining a full description and very informal discourse by you
for publication, at your earliest convenience.
Hoping to receive a favorable reply, and offering my
heartiest congratulations to you, upon this, your latest success, I
Respectfully yours,
VVjl
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^ II. Y. , Sept. 12, 1910.
Dear Mr. Edison: -
1 now enclose copy of paper on first experimental
Central Station, which is corrected in accordance with the
notations you made on first copy I sent you.
I have written this artiole for "Popular Electricity"
and when we were at the Erontenac I showed you Mr. Young's
letter asking if I coi;ld get you to write a short statement
as to your recollection of the events recorded or something
of that sort.
I have had first page of paper typewritten on
heavy paper and should feel much obliged if you would kindly
write in a few words to above effect in the space left below
the title.
Yi'SA : ER
Yours very truly,
Sincerely,
©tej
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The Globe desires a spejj.-srJfl Interview with you relative1' W
theories on the immortality of the soul as recently indicated in i
paper article. This is of especial interest just now, inasmuch as a f&v V
York minister last Sunday took issue with your reported statements. IA
The Globe would much appreciate, therefore, your consent to an inter}-/
view- If this meets with your approval, kindly let your secretary know, in V
order that he may inform me when I telephone your labratory tomor
ted in a na3\- >°
(Thursday) afternoon.
Yours Very Truly,
bear air (cr iladam)
DAILY MAIL YEAR BOOK EDImmAL omcE
1 ® 1 1 ’ 3i & 32. TEMPLE HOUSE,
ELEVENTH YEAR, it SIXPENCE. _ _ _
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LONDON, E.C.
• mplUoetra?MiAssion,I>tlio phonograph, Incan- . 0c1/0lD6I*. 19X0.
Phono* 'oni1,11 nSy^ofiicr lnstninicnti,nnow
universally used ; still engagod in folvlng tho
jtwt^problejit^of^^lectrlc^ .storage and .the
(0U4 ") C ho
I am now preparing the "Daily Mail" Year Book for
1911 and should he much obliged if you would kindly revise
the attached paragraph - which appears in the Biographical
Section - and confirm the accuracy of the addl^aWN^ A stamped
envelope is enclosed and I should be^glad ojf Ws immediate
return.
Tho space at my disposal only admitlyof brief
notices, and I regret that I cannot do full justice in them
to many distinguished careers.
The "Daily Hail" Year Book will be ready early in
December. Its object is to give a summary of the main facts
of the chief Questions of tho Day, and it contains information
found in no other book. A carefully prepared index gives easy
access to every fact in the book. It will be obtainable of
any bookseller or newsagent, or a copy will be sent by post for
9d. on application to the publisher.
Yours sincerely,
PERCY L. PARKER,
Editor.
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November 3,191^.
We beg leave to advise you
that we are sending you, by express
prepaid, three copies of "Edison: His
Life and Inventions", published today,
which please to accept with our com¬
pliments.
Very truly youra,
F. L. Dyer, Esq.,
President,
Edison Phonograph Co.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, New Jersey.
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most recently made a picture of your head and face, I want
to get the latest edition.
I enclose stamped envelope for reply.
Yours sincer ely,
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November 14,1910.
Dear Ur. Ueadoworoft:
I have your letter of
the 12th, and I note that you think
it beet that v/e should send a man
out to canvass the work instead of
troubling Ur. Churchill. I dare say
this will prove more effective, and
I trust there will be no objection.
We will send out a satisfactory
representative with a letter of
introduction, and perhaps you will
be good Gnough to start him. I think
it would be well to determine the
feasibility of this ns soon as
possible, and I hope to hear from
you shortly.
You may like to know
that Ur. Coffin, President of the
General Electric Company, has been
several copies of the book, he and his
Secretary, Mr. Keeler, have given our
representatives letters of introduction
to the offices at Schenectady, whore our
agent will begin work tomorrow, and also
letters to the offices at Pittsfield and
Lynn.
With many thanks for your very
pleasant messages, believe me
Very faithfully yours
St.'yY.
William H. Ueadoworoft, Esq.
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, New Jersey.
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Pennsylvania Packet, 1771: Daily Advertiser, 1784
United States Gazette, 1789: The oldest Daily
Newspaper in America Philadelphia
Thornes /.Edison, Esq.,
West Orange , N..T,
My deer Mr. Edison:
November 15,1910
Can I see yon i
in West Orange ,for a te.lk
during the coming year?
Friday
:>n the
of this week, r.t your Laboratory
prospects of invention end science
We ere -desirous of having your views on the subiect for ,,.P
whether 'Tridr^wi n If14 Wilu be v klndnesD if >'«' can let me know
wne trier Friary will suit you, by return mpII.
of thefstrr^Ph4?^Pl- 1 ^"viewed W seme months ago on the subject
01 the otor-o-e bc ttery for this Fyndry Mogpj'.ine md Syndicate. J
Very truly yours,
c
Sundry department.
ZftLj
NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, November S8, 1910.
VT. H. Meadwooroft, Esq.,
Legal Department
Edison Laboratory-
Orange, N. J.
Dear Ur. Meadoworoft:
Please notioe the enolosed from Mr. Ruddy whioh I have
aoknowledg-ed, informing him that the referenoe to "Chromondo" in the
book is autobiographio and in Edison's own handwriting. I think it
quite likely that the man may also have been known as"0mohundro." At
any rate I am willing to baok Edison's memory against that of anybody else
Yours truly,
EDITORIAL ROOMS.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
llov.27,1010.
East Orange, li..J. ;
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Dear .Mr. Edison: A cable dispatch from cur St. Petersburg correspondent this morning
said: "Among the papers left by Tolstoy with Prince Tschertky were found many letters
from Thomas A. Edison, the American inventor."
If this statement is correct would it not be possible for The Worldto learn something
more concerning your correspondence with Count Tolstoy? We should very greatly appreciate
YOUR COURTESY IF I MIGHT SEE YOU AT SOME TIME OF YOUR FIXING III THIS CONNECTION.
?OU MAY RECALL THAT I »/AS AT THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE KlNETOPHONE IN Al)GU6T,AN0 THAT
A DAY OR TWO BEFORE THAT I TALKED WITH YOU ABOUT MILWAUKEE'S INQUIRY CONCERNING YOUR CEMENT
HOUSES.
Thanking you for your very many courtesies to The World and to myself, I remain,
Very SINCERELY YOURS,
(fti ‘J2JL
£%nwmai>(X £dt4oru
TRe Edison Portland Cement Co
Telejraph, Frcijht and Paaicnjer Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
P. O ADDRESS, STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
December 3, 1910.
Mr. William H. Meadoweroft ,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Ur. Meadoweroft
I beg herewith to enclose my check
for $8.64, covering the books which you ordered for me,
which I greatly appreciate. Will you please aBk Ur.
Edison, on the front page of each of the first three
volumes, to write the following :-
Pi ret:- "To FRANK BRADLEY, Esq.,
ComplimentB of
THOMAS A. EDISON,
December 25, 1910."
Second:- "To BAYLY HIPKIN8, Esq.,
ComplimentB of
THOMAS A. EDISON,
December 25, 1910."
Third:- "To WILLIAM H. MASON, Esq.,
ComplimentB of
THOMAS A. EDISON,
December 25, 1910."
Mr* Edison will understand that Messrs.
Bradley and HipkinB are of the Bradley Contracting Co., to
whom we are shipping suoh large quantities of cement for
Subway work.
Thanking you very much for your help in
this matter, with my very kindest regards, I am,
Yours very truly,
WSM-HBS
ENCLOSURE: -
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December 6, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
West orange, N. J,
Dear Sir: Ip-' r 0\)
Will you kindly spare a little time^ome^a^this week to
see Mr. Lebhar, a member of our staff, in regard to the possibilities
of a recent invention of an enormous, powerful magnet, by means
of which it has been suggested ships might be drawn into port without
the aid of tugs? If you will name the day and time our Mr. lebhar
will keep the appointment promptly.
Thanking you in advance,
Very truly yourB,
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I have entered you with a Complimentary
subscription to our Reports on Fundamental
Conditions, and have ordered a plate glass
sent you which you can put on the table back
of your desk in the library to keep the sheets
under. Each weak a new sheet will be sent
you in a mailing tube and will you kindly
instruct your secretary to remove the old sheet
and throw the same away inserting under the
glass the new sheet.
Each Tuesday morning you will receive
a Weekly letter containing the Composite
Plot up-to-date which after looking at you
can throv/ aw/ay as the new Composite Plot each
week is cumulative and there is no need of
saving the old copies. When new 7 Charts are
received from time to time kindly instruct
your secretary to file them away as per the
instructions on the upper left-hand corner
of each Chart throwing away the old Chart in
most cases.
I thank you exceedingly for the interview
which you gave me and especially for the sheets
which I shall try to use in connection with
my writings for the Saturday Evening Post.
In studying these notes of yours they have
given me much food for thought and I feel
XioGUR W. Bauson
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kindest regards, I am.
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THE LEADING JOURNAL OF THE TRADE
New York,
December 7, 1910
Thomas A. Edison, Esq
Orange, N.J. : 1
Dear Sir:-
lly excuse for addressing you peroonlly 1b that about three yea®
ago you very kindly gave me a half hour of your time when I presented
letters of introduction from Mr. Hunn, of the Scientific American, and
from Mr. E. C. Beach, the son of your former friend, who is still my
partner.
My reason for writing iB that at this time there is in this
country Mr. ErieBe-Greene, an Englishman, who is making claims to
having invented the motion picture, but more especially the camera
mechanism which is the basis of the Edison Patent, No. 12,037.
I do not believe that there is any man, living or dead, who
can truthfully lay olaim to having invented the motion picture. To the
best of my belief you, yourself, have never made this claim, although
the honor has often been attributed to you by others. The motion picture
evolved, as the product of many hands and many brains.
Now this man Greene, through an agent, offered to this paper
a statement for publication, in the form of an affidavit, which, to be
brief, was unworthy of serious consideration and certainly unworthy of
being placed upon record. It contained reflections upon the Edison
Company, merited or unmerited, which have no bearing whatever upon the
moving picture world
THE LEADING JOURNAL OF THE TRADE
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moving picture business of to-day. Of course it 1b a belated attempt to
discredit the Edison Company's claims to that patent, but it does not
alter the dominant fact that the patent was issued to them, that it was
contested and that the courts sustained their claims.
There is a disagreeable haze hanging around this patent. It may
be due to inadequate laws; it may be due to inefficient lawyerB, but this
paper, as the leading journal of the trade, would welcome from you for
publication a clear statement regarding the claims of invention
and the patent rights. We have tried to obtain this through other
authoritative sources in vain. We feel certain that suoh a statement
from you would greatly clear the atmosphere at this time. we freely
offer you all the space required for this statement— a statement that’we
feel is due to the public. We hope to receive a statement from you
to which we can point in answer to the many inquiries that trouble us
from day to day— a statement sufficiently clear, and specific so that
the inquirer can govern himself accordingly.
Respectfully yours
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Thomas A. Edison,
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Dear fir. Edison
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im to good advantage in some of my writings
I wish that you would write me what you said relative to
Hewton's Lav/ of Action and Reaction applying in business and
causing the swings shown on my Composite Riot. If I remember
correctly, you said something like this:- "It is the over-spec¬
ulation of the gamblers on borrowed money which causes these
abnormally high peaks above the normal line of growth and owing
to the law of action and reaction, there must necessarily be
a corresponding period of shrinkage to shrink out those inflations
and this is shown by the areas below the line of growth".
You also made the point that if we were willing to quit
gambling in commodities, real estate, stocks, etc., we could cut
down both the area above and below the line of growth and have
a normal and slow but constantly increasing period of improvement, -
You gave me so much food for thought tiiat I could not carry
away all that you said and would like to get a word more from
you on the subject of these swings and the law of action and
reaction. -’7ith kindest regards, I am,
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NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION
N3V? YORK, Jlaoamb’r 31, 1910.
V,\ H. Haadoworoft, Eso.
Edison Laboratory
Orant-a, N. J.
Dear Mr. Msadoworoft:
Plsaea nota tha onnlosad from Mr. Hott. I hnva informad
him that copiss of tha book he. vs bsnn «ivan only to thosa who halpad
uh in tha work. As far ns I nan make out from his lsttsr thara is or
[ENCLOSURE]
Dear Hr. Martin
I have wonders] wdy 1 did not. receive :i presentation
copy of you r late work in biography an I understand^ of the Menlo Park,
boys did receive such whose names were mentioned therein.
I had a brief look at those books , through favor of a ; ,
friend,™ am not qualified on the whodo as a critic, cut several tnir.Ss
came under my eye that were not quite right , to wit. had you been accura¬
te at I vvy-suv-S.nlnn to
•ainy fellow l^>.v.3oSvn6nhoo«n Edward G. Acheson. Again, the
■otner who succeeded Griffin as private secretary, froi
■' 1 1 i ty of tnat
?ping Df3pt- ln ^rly 1880, was Charles P., and not " C. T. Mott.jsV
,ent back to his f
’a., was elected Judge, and died two
year's ago last fall.
v'cu were and I **£. ill-lnformod to know that the writer '
*«V3 aS3°°lated at Mn?10 park " ln » aoairacrcial way." Great Scott,, nan!
that 1 hacl bgga* • I **» so busy turning out inventions— at that time,'
C"! Tii"1 fr°ra 2 t0 3 PatCnt applioatlons a week — that I did not
|«dtlU4lr^^*Unity mak* 50,000 dollars, plaguo-take-lt J fnat was a
. ide in my affairs that mental aofcorbtlon, due to hatching out. devices of
311 S01'tS’ SldBtraC,{nd- Cf ty — 17 associates of bdison I was tno
only one, so far »« I ifn-.„ ...a. . . .
. . . n" hire., ns an inventor. This is not say-
^ng wuen, po maps , cut it is accurate. I was rooomraandod and introduced to
him as an inventor oy Princeton University ( School of Science ) and as
... to up „„ly M, luvonttoos put , „lg,„
good arrangement by any
rs will no. d 1 f f r.ino-- to any oif
ire little about it now
) writing history we -rtwsmid
ie Season, forjinumj r^-ooids
The R. S^WlLLlAMS & S>©>?tfSk (GOhLimiteek
Mr. Frank D. Dyer,
President
National Phonograph Co. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to your favor of the Elst. inst. re.
Manuscript of Mr; Edison.
I am afraid, that §250.00 is an outside price
for a hook of this type, especially when the man is still
living. Of course I realize after Mr. Edison's death this
will no doubt be worth much more than this, but I am afraid
I would not care to give over §100.00 for a work of this
kind. Many thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Wishing you the compliments of the season, I remain,
Yours very truly.
HSV//G.
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[FROM FRANK L. DYER]
Doc. 31, 1910
Ur. E. S. V/illlaias, Jr.,
K. 0. SfiUlsi&rs a Sons Co., Itcl.,
Toronto, Canada.
Dear Ur- Williams:
1 havo taken up furthor with tho owner t3io
not tor of Ur. Edison's sketchbook and an informed by him that
you can have thin for .-plOO.Od. He has depooited this hook
with Mr. T. C. Martin, 39 39fn St., liew York City, and a
chock should ho sent to Mr. Martin payable to the order of
0. d' Inf re vi lie, the owner. Mr. d'Infreville suggested
handling it in this way because Mr. Martin is a mutual friend
and well acquainted with Mr. Edison’s handwriting. I under¬
stand that tho hook when packed weighs over four pounds and
therofore could not he sent through tho mails.
V/ith tho compliments of the season, beliovo mo
Yours very truly.
C 771 r- - A' * / / 9 so J
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS AND ALSO OF PERSONS TO WHOM
THE AH THORS ARE INDEBTED IN CONNECTION
•II TH THE EDISON BIOGRAPHY.
I. J, Jenks, ISO Broadway, New York City.
Charles L. Clarke, o/o 1. J. Jenks, ISO Broadway, N. Y. C.
If. H. Lankan, " 11 " " "
E. W. Hammer, " 11 ' " 11 " 11
Major S. D. Eaton, o/o Eaton, Lewie & Rowe, 30 Church St., N.Y.C
Edward H. John eon, Union League Club, 5th A Ye. & 30th St., N.Y.C
Col. Reiff, o/o Edward H. Johnnon.
Ralph ~. Pope, SO Yeet 30th Street, New York City.
Jatr.ee A. Rica! ton, Maplewood, N. J.
’■V. 8. Andrews, c/o General El oo trio Co., Schenec tody, N. Y.
Mrs. Kayter Reed, Tlaoe Vigor Hotel, Montreal, Canada.
H. J. Hammer, 153 ’feet 46th St., New York City.
F. A. Soheffler, c/o Babcock & Wilcox Co., 85 Liberty St., N.Y.C
Samuel Inaull , Commonwealth Edison Co., 130 Adams St., Chicago,
W. S. Mallory, Edition Portland Cement Co., Stewartsvill a, K. J.
J. H. Vail, General Vehicle Co., Long Island City, '$m Y.
F. R. Hpton, 07 Prospect Street, East Orange, N. J.
R. K. Dyer, 31 Nassau Street, New York City.
Dr. E. G. Acheson, Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Till ian; Waver, Jr., 136 Liberty St., New York City.
Clarence Hoaly, o/o 1J. Y. Quotation Co., 18 Broadway, New Yorl
Frank D. Lev/io •)
) Office.
Hobert M. Sutphen )
, 44 East E3rd St., New York City.
McClure Co.
1910. Edison, T.A. - Book and Journal Orders
(D-10-18)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
ordering of books and journals. Included are renewals for Edison's journal
subscriptions, as well as book and magazine orders for members of the Edison
family. Among the documents for 1910 are items concerning works on religion
and spiritualism and on electric railways.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include receipts, subscription renewals, solicitations, and
letters of acknowledgment.
run macmillan company,
64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Unclosed flense find $ . (check o,
which kindly send to the undersigned address, by
LIFE OF WILLIAM THOMSON
POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
THE LIFE OF
WILLIAM THOMSON !
^ 'b^ARON KELVIN OTLAi^OS^^^^
\>y jf \ ^ j
Y CjSiL^wjs P. Thompson
a \f j/]in 7™° v°iumes
v/ ' V s /
Cloth, {/ 800, $7.50 net; postpaid $7.85
REPRINT OF PAPERS ON
ELECTROSTATICS AND MAGNETISM
With Pholograoure Portraits and other Illustrations
Date
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
D. YAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, TE“—
publishers,* Importers land * booksellers,
33 Murray and. 37 Warren Streets.
p.o. Box 1741. New York, May 13, 1910.
l'{ (fa*. IVU fU*.'6»w>0 o
I am eendin*) you to-aafcr an Italian boo# on/PBatter-* ** ~A~
H-ft U* cul q-U*vtjL|
ies", the translation of which has been suggested to us. A j
rather competent man to whom X submitted it stateB that the
first, second, third, and fourth sections of the hook are ^
excellent, hut that the fifth and sixth sections would need
to he brought up to date.
This of course is practicable if we translate it,
hut X will he glad if you will hand it to Mr. Edison and have
him glance it over and give me his opinion of it, and also
suggest to me whether anywhere throughout his staff there is
anyone who is competent to undertake the translation for me.
I shall he greatly obliged if you will let me hear
from you in the matter at your convenience, and remain.
Very truly yours.
uruxy yours, —
very truly,
BRENTANO’S
FIFTH AVENUE &27T* STREET
NEW YORK CITY
Nov. 16, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
The Laboratory,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:-
T,e acknowledge with thanks
reooipt of your order of the 14th inBt.
We have made note to import oopy of
^Reason and Belief* by Oliver Lodge,
and also that the items of your order
are to be held, suoh as not already
sent, and forwarded in one shipment
to Fort Meyer, Florida.
Very truly yours,
PM*» '
CABLE ADDRESS:
"BOWLINE," NEW YORK.
D, YAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, T6LE~l^.
publishers,! Importers land* Booksellers,
08 Murray and 37 Warren Streets.
P. 0. Box 1741. NEW YORK, Dec ember 5, 1910.
Tho Thos. A. Edison laboratory,
Orange,
Uev; Jersey.
your - ’
Dear Sir:-
ICindly advise us if you desire yot
the following periodicals renewed!
The Amer. Jrnl of Science,
Chemical Abstracts,
Proceedings t>hys. Society (London)
Jmrl of Aner. Cheffl. Society
" " Physical ' Chemistry
V/e solicit your orders for these and ass)
same will receive our prompt and careful attention.
Awaiting your estoemod favors, wo are
subscription to
Very truly yours.
'iSle ,
v£i-
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SPECIAL NOTICE
NUMBER THREE A l\ h ji/d’P
'i(/
We do not want you to forget about your dues to i/fHE CRAFTSMAt
which were paid up to and including the . CgyCSk . issue. We do
want you to miss a single copy, and if you will scpd your remittance at
once, we will send you FREE a copy of the . . . issue, and
start your renewal with the . issue.
The editors of THE CRAFTSMAN have many new things in store for
tlie readers during the coming year, and in addition to all the new fea¬
tures, more space will he devoted to house building, and we are constantly
making plans of some of the best houses of moderate price that we have
ever shown; Mr. Gustav Stickley is giving more of his personal attention
to cabinet making, going into the subject most thoroughly, and will explain
how to make a good many pieces of furniture never before shown; the
articles on needle work, metal work, etc., will be given more attention; in
fact, THE CRAFTSMAN will be improved in every way possible.
Remember you are entitled to a set of plans of any one house you may
select that we have published or may publish of our own design Absolutely
. *u “ 's subscription to the magazine.
Remit by money order, personal chec
ir bills ai
nr risk. To avoitl
tddressed envelope,
on the form below.
THE CRAFTSMAN, No. 6723
41 West 34th St., New York. nff,
Gentlemen : utw
Kindly keep me on TH1L CRAFTSMAN subscription list for a year be¬
ginning with the . t/JLcS: . issue. Send . . . Jt&ZT.. .
free. Find enclosed $ . With or without Craftsman Homes.
SPECIAL NEW FEATURES
Purchase of Agricultural Land for Division into Small Holdings:
People of moderate means who want to live in the ’country and must
work in the city find that the greatest difficulty in the way of their getting a
country home at reasonable cost is the high price of land in the vicinity of
large towns. Therefore, there is an immense demand for small holdings
at moderate cost, and THE CRAFTSMAN during the coming year will out¬
line in a series of articles the plan it has formulated for the creation of an
organization to buy land at acreage prices and sell it again in small hold¬
ings with no increase of the original cost beyond the moderate percentage
needed for running expenses. The principles upon which this work will
be carried on are essentially the same as those of the Government Reclama¬
tion Service, where arid lands are put into shape for settlers and sold to
them for exactly what it has cost the Government to render them fit for
cultivation.
Reclaiming of Swamp Lands: The possibilities that lie in the re-
claiming of swamp lands by the State, especially in the Hast and South,,
will be dealt with in articles touching this phase of the landward move¬
ment. We need more available farm land, and THE CRAFTSMAN will show
the advantages that lie in this method of getting it.
Cooperative Stores: England has succeeded in handling her own
problem of the cost of living by means of her immense and efficient net¬
work of cooperative stores. THE CRAFTSMAN will show the probable ef¬
fect of the application of this idea to conditions in our own country why
. ...!??? .(**!?'! _b.c.f.°r_e> and why it now has achafice to succeed.
New Ideas in Housing : We wish once more to call attention to the
articles by Mr. Barry Parker, which will continue throughout the coming
year, as in them the famous English architect deals in the most direct wav
with the problem of building beautiful and comfortable homes at moderate
cost, using as examples the houses that arc now being built all over England.
Town Planning: We have had so many requests from all parts of
the country for more articles on town planning that we are arranging with
Mr. Raymond Unwin, the great English authority on this subject, to keep
US in touch with the progress of the movement abroad. The result will
appear in articles published from time to time in THE CRAFTSMAN.
1910. Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies (D-10-19)
This folder contains correspondence relating to Edison’s membership
and activities in social clubs and professional societies. Among the documents
for 1 91 0 are several letters from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
to which Edison donated a diary by Samuel F. B. Morse. There are also several
invitations to the annual banquet of the Ohio Society of New York, which
Edison declined on account of his deafness. In addition, there are letters from
the National Electric Light Association, the Committee of One Hundred of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other professional
societies; automobile and booster clubs; and religious, civic, and philanthropic
organizations. Some of the items contain marginal notes by Edison.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of announcements, invitations that Edison
declined, and correspondence from organizations in which he did not
participate.
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American Institute of Electrical Engineers
33 WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET
April 18, 1910.
Mr. T.C. Martin, Executive Secretary,
National Electric Light Association,
29 West 39th St. , New York City.
' lrQ
My dear Mr, Martin:
I can scarcely express my gratification upon receiving
at your hands the autograph journal of Professor Morse. I
hoped to find therein what was doing on August 16, 1844, which
was my birthday and which I have frequently used as the year
of the birth of the telegraph. Like all journals, however, I
find that it is incomplete, there being a hiatus between
1843 and 1848. In looking over this journal I find that one
of the most interesting items is that in which he refers to
an interview with Mr. Bain who was the inventor of a rival
system which was used in this country to a limited extent.
In his record of this interview he refers to the dot and line
alphabet which, with certain transpositions, was practically
identical with both inventors. At your convenience I should
be pleased to learn just how much of thiB has already been
printed as it appears to me that in order to make this gift of
the greatest value some extracts from it should be printed.
Very truly yours,
Secretary.
[ATTACHMENT]
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
33 WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET
April 18, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey.
My dear Tom: i:<-
Our mutual friend Mr. Martin has recently placed in my
hands the autograph journal of Professor Morse which you have
kindly presented to the Institute. It is a most interesting
and acceptable donation to our collection and I was very much
pleased to learn that it fell into the hands of one who not
only appreciates its value hut had in mind the general interest
of the electrical' fraternity and has placed it in the possession
of those who will not only care for its future preservation,
hut place it where it will he accessible for the inspection of
those who may wish to familiarize themselves with the early
tribulations of a great inventor.
Very truly yours.
P.V/P.G.
Secretary.
>•> H
3l.ilair*x-t (florae
OlU-iu-Imn't
Cleveland, 0., April 28, 191
Dear Sirs-
You will have reason this year to feel an increai
ed pride in your membership in the Illuminating Engineerim
Sooiety, - a grand work marking an epoch in the progress o:
the lighting industry has been projected, of which you will
hear fully later.
Meantime, you will be interested to note another
sign of its vigorous development through the appropriation
by the Council of certain funds for the conduct of a Membei
ship Campaign, which has been placed in charge of Ur. W. H
Gartley of Philadelphia, Professor H. B. Dates 6f the Case
School of Applied Science of Cleveland, and the writer.
V7e want your co-operation in this work to the ex¬
tent of giving us the names of a few men who need the Sooi¬
ety, and wnom the Society needs. You will of course indue
their corporate connection, together with the full address
of each individual.
As we plan to start our active work Mav 10th, anc
to conclude it June 14th, your prompt co-operation will be
particularly appreciated, and for your convenience, I am en
closing a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
[ ! Chairman Membership Committee,
f
Assoc. MemberB*
Mr. ff. H. Gartley
Prof. H. B. Dates
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NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION
ROT YORK, May 18, 1910.
Ihoaias A. Edison, Esquire f 0
Ed i non Laboratories
Orange. N. j.
Dear Mr. Edison:
President Fnteauff was greatly delighted at his reception
the other day, although sorry that you will not be able to be with us
To.
_ May _ _ /9jQ _
— Frank -7. FmeauffV-P-reo. -
national Eleotrio Light. Association
_ Building . . . . . . . . . . . .
Eleotrio light Assooiation-on-its- twenty-fifth anniversary. Long may
it_oontinue_to work for the-sr-elfare oft he industry anti the publio good.
THE WESTERN UMIORT TELECMPH C!OMPAKIY„
24,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA.
^ CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.
fjg:CEIVED a) m m a St., Orange, IT. J. Telephone $0.
SI NY IQ. R 26 Paid DPR
Louis ho May 24-10
Thoa A Edison,
West Orange NJ.
^111 you kindly taldgraph through the Post Dispatch a greeting ^
t° and appreciation of work of the National Electric Light
Association now in ee3sion St Louis.
Post Dispatch. .
10. 68 AM
[ENCLOSURE]
[ENCLOSURE]
New v York 7 Electrical 7 Society
: the Secret ary
29 West 39th Street
New York, . June . 14.., . 19.1.Q..
Mr. R. H. Beach,
Edison Storage Battery »
50 Church St., V ''
City.
Dear Hr. Beach: -
I have Been away from town and on my return I found your
kind letter in regard to the proposed visit to Hr. Edison's Lab¬
oratory. We are much gratified that this is something that we can
look forward to. You wore good enough to say that I might put your
name down as a candiate for the new York Electrical Society, which
1 have done. Hr. Martin and myself are proposing and seconding you.
Hay I ask you to kindly sign the enclosed application and return it
to me forthwith, obliging,
Yours very truly,
%r,
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S&y i'p#u- (<U^ cZ Tt&r&t^oto 4^£
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Editor :
If you print the enclosed on
Etc.,
send me one or more copies of the
issue with it in. If not available,
please return soon as possible.
cents enclosed.
If too long or strong, print any
part.
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY,
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT,
CLARKSON, MARYLAND.
<M* * a*. ci~
Lancaster Electric Supply and Construction Co.
LANCASTER: 23 East Orange Stiee!
Lancaster, ‘Prr., Juns 35 , 1910.
v ,v\ k&^.*
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Trusting that I am not Infringing on your tine , I an seeking^
some information as to the American Civic Alliance of #507 Fifth
Avenue , New York City , N.Y. I have received a request to join same'* /
and would request your opinion as to its objects and usefulness. 1
Thanking you for any information you can giveme , I remain ,
Yours respectfully.
Z pT
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Arif On behalf of the National Geographic Society I beg to thank
(/ you for your generous subscription to the proposed South Polar
Expedition under the auspices of the National Geographic Society
and the Peary Arctic Club. Inasmuch as the entire amount
required could not be raised in time to make adequate prepara¬
tions for the scientific and otherwork, the Expedition has been
abandoned. Your subscription toiL_£/SL_ ~~ _ is returneia A fl oj
herewith. T UVl
With much appreciation of your interest in the work of /he /
National Geographic Society, of which you are a member, I jam,
Very sincerely yours, 1
HENRY GANNETT,
Gkmtmtfte* xti Gte limited
NATIONAL HEALTH.
Edgewood Camp, Sugar Hill, N. H.
1st September 1910
To the Members of the Committee of One Hundred:
I understand that there has been sent to yo
a oopy of the "First,' Report" of the "National
League for Medical freedom" . This will show you
that the opposition to the efforts of the Commit
tee of One Hundred is well organized, and is be¬
ing conducted bjf professionals in public propa¬
ganda. The Coaattee of One Hundred must meet
this opposition. We must prepare for the next
session of CJhgress at which will be reached the
culminationjgf our efforts to get passed a bill
to establish a Department or Bureau- of Health.
•Presfiaent Taft intends to help actively.
Senajor Open and others, who have already intro¬
duced bjyls and made speeches in favor of a De-
partfaen# of Health, can be counted on. The hear-
ingg ay the last session (covering over 700
pa§lSy a 8Unnnary of which is sent you under sep-
arsjfce/cover, have prepared the ground. Both
Hojsjjr and Senate Committees are expected to re-
P°lysome form of health bill. Many members of
thQJG ommittee of One Hundred have helped greatly
ir.Vbringing matters to the present stage and the
help of all is now needed to finish the work.
The whole situation, comprising opposition, fi¬
nances and future plans is now so important that
members of the Executive Committee feel that the
whole Committee should be called together to con¬
sider the best plan of action.
I am therefore writing to call the Committee
of One Hundred together Saturday, October 8th, in
New York City, the place of meeting to be desig¬
nated later. I am writing thus far ahead to give
those members living at a distance an opportunity
to make their plans to come. I enclose a postal,
addressed to the Executive Secretary, and shall
be obliged if you will indicate to her whether or
not you think you will he able to
giving definite information as to
New York.
attend. I will write you again
the hour and place of meeting in
Sincerely yours,
a“wJ
Headquarters Fifth Regiment, Infantry
Rational Guard of Hew Jersey
Paterson, H. J.
Colonel Hino and the Officers of the
Fifth Regiment, Infantry, N.G.N.J., acknowledge
with their sincere gratitude the receipt of Hr,
Thomas A. Edison's contribution of $100.00 to
the fund being raisod for the benefit of the
regiment in an endoavor to moke the headquarters
and home stations of the companies comprising the
organization more comfortable and attractive,
that desirable enlistments may be encouraged.
September 13th, 1910.
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658 BROADWAY
New York, N. K.._ . .December 8 , . 191 0,1911
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Edison--
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0Aw>r/Vu''°
The Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society of New York, of
which you are a member, will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria as
usual, Saturday evening, January 14, . 1911.
Theodore. N. Vail, told me the other day that he would be
present. The subject for the evening is "Ohio in Transportation".
As the telegraph and the telephone have nad a great deal to do with
transportation, I think it would be a .fine thing for you to be
present as well as Vail.
f Can you not arrange to be there? — ez^Ar-
CA^v^-e^XA O^L.
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^ _ I know that you are a member of the
, Society), hut it would afford me much pleasure to have
you sit with our distinguished guests upon the occasion of
our 25th anniversary dinner at the Waldorf, on Saturday
evening, January the 14th next.
I understand you are averse to speaking, hut, if
you feel disposed, I Should he glad to have you say some¬
thing, which I know would he appreciated hy the company
present. The theme of the banquet this year will he
"Ohio in Transportation". Kindly let me hear from you at
your earliest convenience.
Hoping for a favorable reply, believe me-
Sincerely yours,
/'PVli'f-t-
President Ohio Society of Hew York.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
Llewellyn Park,
West Orange,
and Industrial affairs, and Boston has a large and enthus¬
iastic, engineering group. This group plans to have a dinner
in January, preferably the latter part, at which we are very
anxious to have you attend. I will guarantee that we can
put up as enthusiastic an occasion as you are likely to find.
yre want you to come as special guest, to give us a chance to
show our appreciation of the great creative work of your
intellect; and this appreciation will he equally expressed
by men in all branches of engineering. Tie also want Mrs .
Edison to come and see the occasion, and in addition to that,
those of us who arc in the faculty of the Massachusetts In¬
stitute of Technology , earnestly hope that Mrs. Edison and
you may come prepared to spend at least an extra day in order
that you may visit the Institute, see its sights and its methods,
as well a3 have a visit with your son Charles.
T. A
. . . .2
December 19, 1910.
;7e all know that It is a matter of serious
moment for a man with your busy occupations to accept an
Invitation; but we are so strongly bent upon this, that we
must have you?* kind consideration. This is one of those
few occasions upon which' the engineers can adequately show
their appreciation of great creative work, and for that reason
we particularly ask for the kind consideration and acceptance
of the invitation for both Mrs. Edison and yourself.
Sincerely yours,
DCj/p
C,.e
^5ES$'®4SW UKIGHTON..
Deoember 22, 19 1C
Gentlemens
The President of the Inven
has appointed the following Committee,
Mr. Edison
Mr. West
Mr. Hunt
to draw up a minute or a resolution regarding the
death of our follow member, Charles T. Porter.
One meeting has passed by since that
time arid I am in hopes that we will be able to repprt
at our next meeting on the 29th inst. As we are not
likoly to have a meeting before that time, X have
drawn up a minute whioh could be spread on the Minutes
of the Guild, if it should meet the approval of the
Committee.
I enclose a oopy and would be glad to
have your suggestions both as to the subject matter
and the form in which it is drawn. Strike out, add to,
or make any changes that comes to your mind. If we
are to meet on the 29th inst., it will require prompt
action.
Very truly yours,
CL , > i ,
[ENCLOSURE]
MINUTE ON THE DEATH OP CHARLES T. PORTER.
It is frith sorrow that wo record the death of !ir,
Charles T. Porter, tho famous Inventor, Author, Engineer and
the Father of the high Booed steam engine. it would be
difficult to overestimate the influence of this mechanical
genius on engineering praotice in general. The modern high
speed direot oonneoted steam engine, tho isoohronous governor,
the cylinder pressure indicator, tho automobile engine and tho
light weight aeroplane engine, are the logical results of his
pioneer work.
hr. Porter was a man charming in manner, clear in
diction, tireless in his profession and whoso whole career was
an illustration of the highest ethical standards. During his
life ho received high honors, among which was being the fifth
to receive, by the Joint action of tho American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, tho American Institute of Mining Engineers ,
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American
Eooiety of Civil Engineers, tho JOHN FRITZ MEDAL, awarded for
notable industrial or scientific achievement. The previous
recipients of the medal were Lord Kelvin, George IVostinghouse,
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edieon.
The distinction of Honorary Membership in the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers was conferred upon him in 1890.
He honored our Guild hy accepting membership therein,
and this minute is entered on our records as an expression of
our appreciation of Mr. Porter’s eminence as a constructive
engineer and his exemplary influence in^f^^^'tho higher
ideals of the profession.
Society of Automobile Engineers
re can nr P7tli, 191C .
i 'r . fhoma s A /Edison,
fir: /l
7,'e are enclosing herewith an invitation for you to to r>resent at
the Annual "eetinr; of the Society of Automobile Uneinoers . '"his is at the
request of IMtehison, a member of the Society . All indications
point to our iiavinr a. very interesting meeting and v;e hope you may find it
convenient to attend.
Very truly yours,
QJb ^ Qico^~
0, General 'Tanacer.
'..Inc .
[ENCLOSURE]
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mtp itf mtr mrmlimi. ntc rxlrtiil tii yuu a rnrbtal imittattim tn uttnih
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1910. Edison, T.A. - Employment (D-10-20)
This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and
prospective employees. There are also letters soliciting Edison's opinion
regarding former employees seeking employment elsewhere. Most of the
correspondence consists of requests for employment at the West Orange
laboratory, some in answer to newspaper advertisements. Among the items for
1910 are documents pertaining to the employment of Sydney W. Ashe, Donald
M. Bliss, Newman H. Holland, and violinist Arturo Nutini. There are also letters
concerning the estates of Charles Batchelor and John Kruesi.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of unsuccessful applications for
employment at the laboratory.
ram, Mr. Josoph Floinohor , aged about twenty-one
years, residing with hio parents in thio 3ootion,
and whom X have known for the pant 10 yeara as
very respeotable.
The young non has, no doubt, an inventive
raind, and adaptability for eleotrioity und eleotrioal
raachinory, oto.
Me has had quite none praotioal onporienoe
in eleotrioal work, and X feel oonfident that, if he
really does poo sea a talent, he night prove hinaelf
useful and nervioeable to you end beoorae benefitted
and inoidentally have his present position iraproved.
If you desire the young nan to oall on you,
kindly let m knot/ when and where, suitable to your
.C1CI ,r ,rat,
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EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PROJECTING KIN ETDS COPES AND FILMS.
‘11 15 is! 21st St. "
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EDISON MANUFACTURING ED.
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ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCOPES AND FILMS.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, 1T.J.
)Sy Dear Edison:
I received Mr. Miller *s ^letter oSTthe Jjj/'
was leaving Hew York. X received a similar letter to throne
addressed to you "by Messrs. Merrill and Rogers, Hr. B&tschelo r • sf
lawyers, and X have written them as per enclos^L oojgir.jvf ,.a3cs|
received a letter from Olga ICniesi,practicallyplie sarasTaEB
one which she addressed to you and which you forwa to me.
will take this whole matter of the Kruesi estate up actively,
consulting Messrs. Eaton, Lewi s & Rowe with reference to it and'~c
soon as I have the necessary information in shape I shall go to
Orange to see you about it. Have you any objection to my bringing
August and Paul Kruesi with me when I go to confer with you?
I am inclined to think that we have got to a point where, bo far
as we are concerned, it would be well to distribute the estate
if we have the legal right to do so.
Yours truly
[ENCLOSURE]
Chicago, Jan. 10, 1910.
Messrs. Merrill & hogers,
128 Broadway, Mew York City.
Bear Sirs:
He Kreuai. Estate. Your letter of December 31st,
written on behalf of your client, Hr. Charles Batchelor, came to
hand whilst I was absent from the City. On ray return, I also find
a letter from Mr. Edison, asking rae to take the subject up with
you. unfortunate death of Mr. Batchelor will necessarily
c.iange the procedure in this natter. X ara communicating with ray
attorneys, Messrs. Eaton, lewis & Howe, of 30 Church Street,
Mew York, and as I have not got a copy of the will of the
late Kr. John Kreusi, X have requested Messrs. Eaton,
lewis and Howe to ask your firm to oblige me by furnishing them
v/ith a copy. As soon as I have had an opportunity to hear from
them, X will communicate further with you.
Yours truly
Henry R. Worthington
HARRISON, N. J.
January 12, 1910.
Hr. Ihomas A. Edison,
West Oranee, N. J.
We are looking for a o ompetekt man to put in Vne of our Kanu
urmg Dep ts. as General Foreman or Superintendent and Hr. Cjalvin :
OOA _ . . . J _
Freid, 224 Bank St., Newark, has applied for this pjfei^Sand informs
me that he was in your employ for a number of years working personally
with you on experimental work ana in different departments of your
works as Foreman and .Designer.
Will you kindly let me know whether you consider this man com¬
petent to fill a posit,
a large number of men i
3 General Foreman
Any information that you may give me in this di
.dered strictly confidential.
Shanking you in anticipation of same, I remain
Very truly yours, .
CWC/CHB I
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MEMORANDUM
4 \
%)■ Jr January 130, 1910.
Mr. Durand,
Hop lying to your memorandum of the 3rd inet. , on the
3uhjoct of alternating 'motors, I undo r stand that nothing will bo done
in this direction until tho actual contract with Mr. Blisa ia signed
and that this cannot bo done for sonotira. I don't think we ought to
go to any or.ponso until wo liave a distinct and dofinito contract with
Mr. Bliss, and ovon tlion I think tho motors ought to bo first design¬
ed and a ample s rnado and tostod and finally approved before anything
is dono in the way of actual manufacture.
y. h. d.
FLD:CVH
[ATTACHMENT!
J'lomo regarding Engineering & Commercial Experience. j
Chief Engineer- of the Holtzor-Cabot Electric Co., ana in charge of both
productive aid commercial endB of their motor business for fourteen years,
designing their well known line of D.C. and A.C. motors, generators and a varied
line of special apparatus. I personnally secured and built various motor
equipments* or sixteen battle ships of the U.S. navy. Hull ventilation, ^munition
Hoists, Peck winches, etc. , also over SO0 motors for the various "as® yards and
motors for subway ventilation. I also secured contracts and designed the special'
motor used in operating the large coast defense guns, over 150 of which, are
now in use.
I built up the H.C. motor business from $50,000. per year to §350,000. jj
One of their most profitable specialties is' their single phase. A.C. motor, of i|
which many thousands have been used. I wrote up and arranged all of their
catalogues and bull etins and was in charge of all correapondenoe connected '
with the motor business.
M? "term with them covered about eight years, when I left voluntari¬
ly. 'After two years I Was recalled, remaining with them six years, when I left a-
ain at the end of 1006, to organize the Engineering Specialty Company
President and Chief Engineer.
Sinoe then I have developed a variable and constant speed type of
repulsion single phase motor and a full. lino of small D.C.' motors; also a
highly successful universal motor for. A.C. and D.C. nm:: circuit for the
American Gramophone Co., running equally well on 100 and 125 volts, D.C. and.
110 volt, 40 and SO. cycles, A.C. circuit without change of adjustment. All the
U.S. navy motor generators for gun control! , motors for Boiler firing signalsietc
■ I have personally secured the trade of such concerns as, The Western
'0l °°- "- ■“W OTBan Co., Emisn
"* ’ Kl00tre11- ««.. Holmes H,e Protsotlvo
A1UOT” °°- «•- « ott„s all ^ * ,.0. „otor;
[ATTACHMENT]
anti generators, l/20 to 1-1/2 H.P. and A.C. l/lO to l/4 H.P. In nearly every
ease at higher prices than the usual figures of other manufacturers,
personal '
Am. in cloBe/.touch with the executive Officials of the above concerns
and can furnish the best of references both from an engineering ana. personal
standpoint.
■The panic coming on so soon after our starting business and our leading
stockholders having been severely hit by this, as v/oll as by the prohibition
wave 3 a the south, makes it difficult to secure the proper working’ capital and
equipment to carry out my plans and renders it necessary for mo to consider
other cou..ootionc at an early date.
[ATTACHMENT: FROM NELSON C. DURAND]
APRIL 28/09
KH. B. K. BLISS,
!'23 Thira Street?!
STAFFORD, Conn.
DEAR SIR:
'The writer would like
to have a personal conversation with you in riew
York City at your earliest convenience on any
day except Saturday.
Awaiting your prompt
reply, I remain.
Yours very truly,
edisoti bc'Ifess "n hoqraph corr.-rry
MANAGER OF SALES.
William D. Wright,
unit (Homr'sclcr at Jlstiv,
Denver.Colo.
January 22, 1910,
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange,
New Jersey.
Dear Al:-
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^1910
Mrs. y, 'right joins me in thanking you for your
prompt attention in seeing that our daughter was given
work in connection with the moving picture making business.
In her letters to us, she warmly praises the sanitary con¬
ditions, associations and surroundings, and is evidently
happy in the work, which seems to fully satisfy her de¬
sire for theatrical expression. Of course, that sort of
work for her will be much more satisfactory to us than
to have her travelling over the country, and our hope is
that she may be found worthy of being givon regular em¬
ployment.
In spite of the multitude of things pressing
upon your attention, kindly continue to bear her in
mind a little until she shall have had opportunity to
prove her fitness for the work, and greatly oblige.
Yours sincerely,
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EDISON MANUFACTURING EU.
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EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
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Jan* 35, 191o
Frank L. Dyer;
Dear Sir,
I am going to bother you onoe more, this time to
Kive ydu my permanentaddross , 133 West 145th. St. New
York, as I Know that sometime you will realise the
injustioe in expeoting anyone to turn out as good
work in the 31st. street studio as oan be done at
the Bronx. I am surprised that Mr. Plimpton did
not oall your attention to this before novr.
Hoping in the near future to be onoe more
employed by the Edison Co.; I am,
Very truly yours,
^^Komo»Cl£d'uioiu
EDISON MANUFACTURING CU.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCDPES AND FILMS.
10 Fifth Avenue, New York cable
30* WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO. "KURILIAI
' Jan. 31st, 1910.
r.v. SVank X.. Dyer, Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
Orange , M. J.
Dear Sir:-
return enclosed letter from 1
bright, dated January 22nd, which you sent me, and which
I intended to return before this.
I explained to you Thursday night that we were
using Kiss Wright all that we could, and shall give her
within a few days an opportunity to do work of a little
more important nature than she has been doing.
Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Dept. ,
(L^Cr^c/j,
Kgr
Negative Production.
RE/BB
New York, February 10, 1910.
Hr. Nelson 0. Durant,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
I understand that you have an opening in your company
for an engineer to do design and development work on some new
apparatus you consider putting on the market and I wish to make
application c£or this position.
While I have not had a very extensive experience in
the construction of phonographs yet I believe my work in other
lines in which a great many problems of the same nature as are
met with in phonograph work are involved, would enable me to
qualify for the work you have in mind.
I have had fifteen years experience in the design and
manufacture of electrical apparatus with the following concerns:
Three years with Ness, McLarn & Bate, manufacturers of
electrical supplies and telephones, in Montreal.
Seven years with the Holtzer-Oabot Electric Co. of
Brookline, Mass., where I had charge of the telephone
department and the design of other eleatrical special¬
ties.
Five years with my present employers, Western Electric Co.,
two years being spent in the original design section of the
engineering department, two years in charge of the experimen¬
tal laboratory in Chicago and the last year in my present
position in the engineering sales department.
As I am very enthusiastic as to the possibilities of the
position you have open I would be willing to start with you at the
same rate as I am now getting, viz: ^^tf-^^per week, but I should
wish it understood that this amount be increased ^^^"per week at
the end of six months and to/^^'per week at the end of the year
dating from the time I first enter the employ of your Company.
I should be willing to change my connection at any
time that would suit your convenience but would of course require
some little time to adjust work that I have at hand with my pres¬
ent employers and give them time to make arrangements for my
successor.
Yours truly,
February 11th, 1910.
Mr. Frank 1. Dyer,
President.
Dear Sir:
Attached please find application from
H. H. Holland for position which you and I have
talked over before.
I have told Mr. Holland that you will
probably not be in until Monday, the 14th inst. ,
after which time you will probably give his lette'
your best consideration.
1 Enc.
Mr. Durand: 2/15/10.
Replying to your favor of the 11th inst. , accom¬
panying application for position hy Fir. Holland, take up
this matter with Mr. Wilson and get his opinion.
Of course, it is to ho understood, should Mr. Holland
come with us, that any inventions he might make during the
period of his employment or developed hy him during that
period, should he assigned to us. Was this understood v/ith
pA- . - h*
Dyer Smith: S/lO/lO.
Replying ‘o the fettattfeod taciaorondtua, the con¬
tract- v;:l th Mr. Bliss can lie nad< with the Bdicon .Vhono yr null
y/orhs, hut should specifically provide that it may be assipnoa
to tho Btiooessor in business of the Edison Hioncgraph lories.
I t'ninl: tliat tho -torn was for five years, but Mr.
Durand can advise you as to this.
If possible, it should provide that the contract
may be renewed upon tho sane terms for a further period of
five years. If r. Bliss objects to this, do not insist
upon it.
t, do not thinl: it necessary to provide for any
special protection from «r. Bliss after the contract em¬
pires, because tb.c whole tiling is a gamble, in which he will
have to tahe his chance along with us.
I thlnh it is a very rood suggestion to provide
in this and other contracts that inventions in tho same line
made within one year after leaving ho employ of tho company
should be assigned to us.
B' J)/lV.T/
linc-
t. I).
[ATTACHMENT]
Mr. Dyer:-
RE BLISS CONTRACT
I understand, that' Mr. Scull handed this contract
in final form to you some time ago. I also understand that
Mr. Edison says it is to stand regardless of Mr. Bliss' new
position. Will you please take the matter up and have it
signed By Both parties, if it is in proper form, as Mr. Bliss
seems to think it should Be signed and out of the way Before
any further complications arise in regard to his new position.
[ENCLOSURE]
his dictation rm v r*'j snail.
I» is understood that the clio tuting apparatus o
be placed in any desired point, while the machine holding
the cylinders is placed wherever the transcribers are lo
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IN REPLY REFER TO ITHH-B-11.
07JATJ.ES SCHIEU, Engineer,
Edison laboratory ,
West Orange, New Jersey.
Tear Sir:
I find that in order to complete work which I have on
hand with the Western Electric Company, I will not he able to
report to you on Monday, March 7th hut plan to do so Monday,
March 14th. Trust this will he satisfactory to you.
X trust yo.u will pardon the delay in advising you as to
when I could start on my new work, hut I was unahle to definitely
determine just when I would complete my work here until to-day.
It is perfectly agreeable to me to make an arrangement
for turning over any patents that may be taken out on work I
develop, to the company, as suggested by Mr. Dyer.
Yours truly,
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MEMORANDUM
360
I/ir. Smith : 3/25/10.
Roferri ng to the proposed agreement with Mr. Bliss, v/hloh
I return horowith, thoro is one point on which 1 on not ontlroly
oloni’. You provide in J’urrgrr.ph 1 that the employment ehall con¬
tinue for the term of five years and in ParaGraph 3 that .hr. 31iss
ontero our employ for tho term of fivo years at a oalaiy of
03500.00 per year and a commission of 2 l/z-L 2ho 6th paragraph
providos that tho acroomont can ho torminatod at 60 days notice.
I an not suro hut what, if wo olootod to terminate tho acroomont,
v/o would still have to pay hr. Bliss his salary and commission,
fhoro arrears to ho no provision that if tho acroomont is torminatod
at our option that Hr. Bliss is to rcccivo anything- I wish you
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would got Hr* Holden’s viows on thoso points and also have him look
ovor tho acroomont so that wo may havo tho honofit of his advioo.
Sho acroomont apparently should ho sicnod hy Mr. Edison as
I’rosidont of tho Phonograph Works, so that it would ho woll to
wait until ho returns , about tho middlo of April. In tho
moantimo, thoro would ho no harm in sayinc to Mr. Bliss that tho
agreeraont was substantially oorroot— that is if you think so¬
und he can go ahoad tho oamo as if tho agroomont had actually
boon signed.
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Mar oh 30, 1910.
Mr. Dyer:-
Mr. J. 8. Kelley, representing the Knights of
Labor, Inc., was in to see you a oouple of days ago, looking
for a contribution toward their organization. I think he
thought that $100. was about the right amount. The basis for
hiB request was the fact that their organization was antagon¬
istic to GomperB and the Federation of Labor, and while he
did not say so in bo many words, their attitude seemed to
be that if the employers of labor would help them, they would
build up an organization which would hold Gompers and his
Federation in check. He gave the names of a great many large
corporations, which had already contributed. I told him that
it was doubtful whether you would take any interest in the
thing, since we had no labor troubles and did not anticipate
any. It may be a good plan for manufacturers to build up
such a counter-irritant, although personally it strikes me
that it is a pretty Bmall pieoe of business for the KnightB
of Labor to make such an appeal, since theoretically they
are working in the interest of the laboring man the as
^GpfnperB is.
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the. address to which the hheok can be sent.
G. F.Ojull.
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atory on the cellulose films.
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a position, and they require your recommendation.
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V/illoox , General Bloo. Co., Harrison, IT. j.
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5 NEW YORK May 19th, 1910.
Mr. Miller,
o/o Edison Phonograph Works,
lakeside Ave. , 7/est Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
7/e are engaged in a prooeeding to fix the transfer tax
upon the estate of Charles Batohelor, deceased. We find that
there is in the estate 253 44/100 shares of stock of the Edison
Phonograph Works. We have been referred to you by Mr. Joyoe of
J. P. Morgan & Company as being the person who could give us the
best information in regard to the value of this stook.
7/ill you kindly advise us of the situation in regard to this
stook, the dividend paid thereon, and its market value in your
opinion on the 1st day of January, 1910, that being the date of
Mr. Batchelor's death.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in the matter, we
remain,
Yours very truly,
0/1
70S East Buffalo Street,
Ithaca, IT. y.
May 26, 1910.
Hr. Thomas A. Edison,
Edison Laboratory,
t. Orange K. J.
Boar Sir
I wish to acknowledge receipt of Mr. Killer's letter
of the 34th. inst. saying that you had written to Mr. IVilloox,
of the Oeneral Electric Co., and I am writing to thank you
for your kind attention.
Very respectfully yours
June 13th 10.
T. Commerford Mairtin, 3Eaq.. ,
239 West 39th St.,
Hew York City.
Commerford Martin:
Do you know an engineer Handed
Ashe, who is a Prof . at Pratts' Institute, Brooklyn
and the author of a "book on Electric R. R. just
published by D. Van Host rand. I want to use an
expert for a week or two and will pay the regular
rate per day, but don't care to pay Sprague or the
Mg}i priced men.
(Signed)
Edison.
Orig. sent to Hr. Martin in Mr. E's h.w. pencil
yellow pad. 6/l3/L°*
NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATE
I received your riots this morning about Prof.
Iclyn Polytechnio, and imnsdintsly wirod you in rer
Ashe is now away on hisaummer vacation up in Matnt
wiok, and I am trying to roaoh him by wiro. I 01:
m him today, but oortninly by tomorrow, and have c
n touch with you at onoo. I know Ashe quite wall, and
will bo glad to do tlus work for you, ns well ns quite
t, without requiring a Ring's ransom.
10 HY N 10 1043A
New Yolk June 14-10
Thoa A JSdiaon,
Mdiaon Laboratory, Orange NJ .
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EDISON BUILi
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July 22, 1910.
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Thoinaa A. Edison, "Esq.,
Orange, H.J.
My Dear Edison:
I think we ought to do seething about the Kruesi
Estate. 1 seldom get in Hew York long enough to spend a day out
at Orange. I was there this week but only staid one night and
had to come back right away. Mr. John C. Rowe, the head of the
firm of Eaton, lewis and Rowe, is fully familiar with the situation
and has been in communication with Mrs. Bachelor ’slawyers on my
behalf and has also been in communication with the Kruesi children.
Would you see Mr. Rowe if I instructed him to go out to Orange to
see you? I think what has got to be done is that you have got to
resign as guardian of the minor ohildren, of which there is but one
now tv/enty years of age. John August Kruesi will have to be appoint¬
ed in your plaoe and then we would distribute the Estate. It
will end all troubles as between the Kruesi girl, who is living in
Switzerland, and her brothers and sisters, and will relieve us of
responsibility and this is the time we ought to do it, because
owing to Bachelor's death Mrs. Bachelor wants an aooount^Lnd wants
the Bachelor Estate relieved of the responsibility,.' If you will
Bend me word as to whether.’.you will see MT.
for him to go out and see you.
> I will arrange
July 28, 1910.o ^
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G. A. llaister, Esq.,
Assistant Secretary, laboratory of Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, H.J.
Dear Sir;
1 have yours of the 26th and have written Mr. Rowe
suggesting that he telephone out to you to make an engagement
with Mr. Edison for him.
Yours truly
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BLOOMFIELD (WATSESSINO STATION, D.L.&W.R.R.)
IkoOMVIKLD, 1ST.J. Aug. 8,:
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange, H. j.
Dear Sir:-
Mr. George H. Hooper, Jr., has applied to us for a position
in our Engineering Department. The position which iB vaoant will
include considerable research work and will give opportunity for
considerable original investigation. Mr. Hooper advises that he
worked under you for several years. Will you kindly advise me
regarding the character of his work during the time that he was with
you?
Thanking you in advance for your kind attention.
Yours very truly.
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Orange, Hew Jersey,
Bear Sir:-
Mr. Samuel Insull has asked me to arrange y/i t)
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you a time when I may call and confer with Mr. Edison in .relation
to the ICruesi Estate. I shall hold myself in readiness ^ }
any appointment which you may make wi th Mr. Edison excepting
on Saturday of this week or on next Monday which is Labor Bay.
Will you kindly let me know when I may call?
Yours very truly,
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Up. H. F. Miller:
In re attached application from Miss
B. Colburn, 182 Rutledgo Avenue, East Orange.H.J;
Yes, we need a girl of Hiss Colburn's
ability, but unfortunately since the order of the day seems
to be a reduction in the forces of all Departments, I see
very little chance of getting her.
If you can porsuade Mr. Edison that we
could spend say $15.00 a week to good advantage in the
employment of Miss Colburn to superintend some special work
in this Department I should be very glad to interview her at
an early date. Otherwise, not.
[ENCLOSURE]
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MEMORANDUM
Hr. Harry I*. Miller: -
Ootohcr 4th, 1910.
I mentioned yesterday to Mr. Edison the sup-
gestion made hy his wife that employment should he given
to Miss i/eloh at the office, and he tells me that under
no circumstances would he consent to have this done
I think he is quite right. Therefore, if Mrs. Edison
mentions the matter to you again, toll her that Mr. Edison
here^3 tliss ought not he given employment
E. R. DURKEE & CO.,
IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS, JOBBERS,
MANUFACTURERS & WHOLESALE DEALERS.
SPICES, MUSTARD, SAUCES, EXTRACTS, &c.,
Nos. 534 TO 540 Washington Strand 1 2 1 to 1 2 7 Charlton St.
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Dear Mr. MeiBter:
Mrs. Batchelor is accounting in the Kruesi Estate
and her attorneys have asked me to secure Mr. Insull's and Mr.
Edison's waiver of citation, thereby saving the expense of publish¬
ing the citation. Mr. Insull has signed his. I enclose herewith
one for Mr. Edison to sign. He should sign at the place indicated
in penoil and he should acknowledge the execution of this waiver
before a Hotary Public, who should sign at the place where the
word "Notary" is indicated in pencil. The Notary should affix
his seal. If your office is familiar with the practice, I would
like to have you get a County Clerk’s certificate as to the
Notary's authority. If you are not familiar with thiB practice,
kindly return the waiver to me after Mr. Edison has signed it,
and I will send some one over to your County Clerk's Office to get
a County Clerk' b certificate.
Mr. Edison doubtless will be interested to know
what the Estate consists of at the present time.
G.A.M. 2.
I enclose herewith an extract from the filed account
showing how the Estate is invested.
Thanking you for the courtesy of bringing this to Mr
Edison's attention at your earliest convenience, I an
Yours very truly,
j? /) /;/
JCR/ABT. (Enel.) M. 99.
[ENCLOSURE]
MEMORANDUM POR MR. IlISULL AS TO HOW THE PRINCIPAL OP
THE KRUJESI ESTATE IS NOW INVESTED:
Investment of Principal.
1899
June
13
$10,000.
Union Pacific 4,% at 108-3/8 & l/8 $
10,850.
"
13
$10,000,
Northern " Prior Lien at
106-3/8 & l/8
10,650.
July
17
$ 1,000.
Metropolitan St.Ry. 5/ at
123-5/8 & l/8
1,237.50
"
21
$ 9,000.
" 5/ at 123-5/8 & 1/8
11,137.50
Aug.
1900
1
$ 5,000.
Central R.R.of N.J. 5^ at 121 & l/8
6,056.25
Moh.
16
$ 2,000.
Metropolitan St.Ry. 5^' at
118-1/4 & l/8
2,367.50
"
16
$ 3,000.
" 5/ at 118 -1/4 & l/8
3,551.25
Apl,
5
$ 3,000.
No.Pacifio Prior Lien at 104-5/e & l/s
3,142.50
11
11
$ 5,000.
" " at 104-5/8 & 1/8
5,237.50
Aug.
17
$ 2,000.
" General “ at 65-1/2 & l/e
1,312.50
Sep.
6
$ 3,000
" " " at 65-1/2 & 1/8
1, 968.75j
$ 57,511.25
The Northern Pacific Railway Company Prior Lien bonds
are twenty-two (22) in number, of whioh fourteen (14) are $1,000
eaoh and eight (8) are $500 eaoh. The Northern Pacific Ry, Co.
General Lien are six (6) in number, of which four (4) are $1,000
each and two (2) are $500 each. All the other bonds mentioned
in this Schedule are $1000 eaoh.
ROSANNA BATCHELOR.
Executrix.
J '/ '/S'// , V^/Ky^fcORTLAN DT BUILDING)
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S. A. Keister, Esq. ,
Edison Labratory,
Orange, 11. X.
Dear Kr. Keister :-
Thank you for your letter of the 28th inst.
EATON, LEWIS & ROWE.
S.'b. EATON, RETIRED.
EUOEN EH. LEWIS, OEc'd.
JOHN C. ROWE.
JOR/AK K. 99
1910. Edison, T.A. - Family (D-10-21)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
health, finances, and activities of Mina Miller Edison and other family members.
Among the items for 1910 are letters pertaining to the financial difficulties of
William Leslie Edison, the legal problems of his Edison Auto Accessories Co.,
the finances of Thomas A. Edison, Jr., the many charitable and household
activities of Mina Miller Edison, and the redemption of her bonds in the Edison
Electric Illuminating Co. and Edison Phonograph Works. There is also material
concerning an automobile accident involving Charles Edison and the expenses
for a summer camp attended by Theodore Edison.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of receipts, bills of lading, and routine
account statements. Some of the receipts and statements relate to the claims
of the Canis Index Co. and the Motor Boat Publishing Co. against William
Leslie Edison.
Jan. E, 1910.
C-eo. E. Judd,
Sanitarium.
Vy dear Sir:-
7?e will arinume the payment of ono- third
of my sinter's bill, she hao an idea that Or.
Kollos roducod her bill on account of a casual
remark made, while wo wore diding, about
missionary work which explains wiry she wrote,
I do not want her to know that 1 am doing it.
Tfith groetinga for the Hew Year,
Yours truly,
(PICKED) Hina I'. Edison
Clilu' fVnitk' (Lm'li
January 30, 1910.
Mrs. Thoo. A. Edison,
Glenmont, Lleyollyn Park,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Madams-
I have Just written Miss Mary Miller of Akron, Ohio,
as per carton copy enclosed herewith.
We have been exceedingly busy in our office lately
and being short of help we have not been able to gtte as
proper attention as we should to the matters in question.
We have transferred from Miss Hiller's account to
your account, $65.20. This amount together with the balance
of $18.22 Already on the account leaves yonr indebtedness
to us $83.42. If you will kindly favor us with check for
this amount we shall be glad to send you o receipt in full.
Thanking you in advance for this and many courtesies
extended^ we remain,
Yours respectfully,
Business Manager
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Die. CEJ-LLA.
[ENCLOSURE]
January 20, 1910.
Kina Unry Miller,
Oak Place,
Akron, Ohio.
Uy dear Hadnraj*
I regret exceedingly that 1 did not adviee you no
promined about ton day* ago relative to the unpaid balance
on your account with the Sanitarium. Ao I wrote you
at that time there wero unpaid bills amounting to $70.68.
X third of tho Mils which you paid during tho first four
weeks you wore here would be $65.20, Deducting thin amount
from the $70.68 will leave you owing us $5,48. If you wl:i
kindly favor us 'with remittance for tale ai ount we ohull be
glad to eond you receipt In full of aooount.
Thanking you in advance for the oourteoy and again
rogretlng our seeming Indlfforonoo in giving this matter
attsntlon, wo romain,
Tours reopeotfully,
PuoinosB Manager
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Walker : ■ sr ^ 28/10 '
Telephone lira. Edison and say that I had to go ovor to
c:
Glen Kidgo and from there to ITcwurk, hut that I had left word
with you to call her up and tell her that we have five horses
here now and accommodations fhr only six, so that there would
only he room for one of her horses any way. Tell her that in
talking the matter over with Hr. Wilson and Mr. Weher we thought
it would he very unwise to have one of her horses down here
because they are not used to trucking and they might injure e.
themselves, and the prohahilities are that the care required toj*
take care of them would cost more than would he saved
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POSTALTELEGRAPH COMMERCIAL CABLES
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obtained Hbt
icctlnjr this jnessoffo can lie attended to without tlio production of this paper.
lgh the Company’s offices, and not by DIRECT application to the
JRcpetit in
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The State of New Jersey. To any Constable in said County,
WILLIAM L. EDISON, doing
| SEAL [ business under the firm name of
EDISON AUTO ACCESSORIES COMPANY,'
to appear before the First District Court of the City of Newark, to he, held at the
New City Hall, Broad Street, ( Ground Floor, Entrance on Green Street), in the said
City, on the Third day of March 1910,
a t TEA' 'o’ eloek.in. the forenoon to answer uhto AUTOMOBILE TOPICS,
a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of New York.
~~~~~’‘~~~~~~~~~~““TTeire'bf~fail'not.
IDitncnn, MALCOLM MAC LEAR, Esq., Jadge of said Coart, at Newark
aforesaid, the twenty-third daU of February
in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Tpn.
I AUl«a?J'o3?K^Ji„n
organized and existing under ithe
laws of., the State of Yor|
. WILLI AU L. ...EDISON, doing business
under 6he firm naue of Edispn
Auto Accessories Co. , ,
D emancl $l(,C,,‘f:Du j...
Costs . Z//> j.
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'Auguste Roche, Jr. , 4
| 800 Broad St.,
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Mr, .Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, IT . "J.
Dear Sir:-
I am in receipt of yours of the 28t}x^ult, and in justice to
myself , and to show; that I was not attempting any confidence game in
my late correspondence, I have obtained the following information
The John Q- V'eaver I re f e r to is the son of Henry A. Weaver and
Lucene M. Elliott-Weaver.
His is the third daughter of John Elliott, who was a brother of
Nancy Elliott-Edison ( your mother ). Hence Mr. Weaver’s mother is your
ovjn cousin. And in conversation with him, I also . found. .out the following ' —
Besides hi3 grandfater, above referred to, there was a brother(your
uncle) by the name of Stephen Elliott, and another by the name of Isaac
Elliott ( likewise your uncle) and your aunt Betsy, who married a man
by the name of Hogadume,
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Further . I find that his ftaher is the son of Pheoby Edison -Weaver,
-Who was the neice of your grandfater, Captain Samuel Edison, and hence a
an own cousin of your father, Samuel Edison, Jr.
Mr. Weaver informs me that he has stood by "your grandfather’s grave on
the hill overlooking the little village of Vienna, Ontario, Canada,
and that he has often been a guest at your grandfather's old home in
thht Village, the place in fact where he died, and which was occupied
at the time of his death by your uncle Mahlon Edison. He was likewise
intimate with the family of your youngest uncle, who ovjned a farm upon
another hill-, Overlooking the village of Viena, the laters name is Oscar
Edison. He likewise says that his sister Loo Weaver, has been a guest
at your New Jersey home. And to refresh your memory I call to your
tTa/ E. ifii
attention the fact, that at the time of your late visit to Salt Lake
City, Mr. Weaver called upon you at the Knutsford Hotel, here, having
with him his little daughter.
X have kept the company owning the house in which he lives from
ejecting him, and have helped him all I can, but have other claims on
me, as I wrote you on the 23rd. ult., and I hope you will, be able to
extend a helping hand to him, as he is sick and in need of help.
Will you please let me hear from you as soon as possible.
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ON CONTRACT.
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in the City of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE,
to the highest bidder, sundry goods and chattels, to wit:
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taken in execution on a judgment issued out of the First District Court of the City of
Newark, MALCOLM MacLEAR, Esquire, Judge, as the property oj the above named
at the suit of _
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Essex Fells
April 27th, 1910.
Mr. Win. Edison,
Pleasantdale, N. J.
Dear Sirs-
We are enclosing herewith hill for rent for which kindly
send us check.
We feel that we have been very just with you in this matter,
and we cannot wait any longer for the back rent. This is the last
notice we will give you, if it is not paid by the 15th of May we will
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Hoping to receive your remittance
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[ATTACHMENT]
Subject : Requirements for n transfer of stock.
Union Pacific Railroao Company.
TRANSFER OFFICE,
new york, May 27, 1910.
Union Rational Bank,
Hewark, R.J.
Bear Sirs:
I have to-day received, from you for transfer $10,000.
Union Pacific Railroad Company Registered First Mortgage Four
Per Cent. Bonds in the name "Thomas A. Edison, Trustee for
Edison Manufacturing Company, under deed of Trust dated July 9
1909," which you desire me to transfer into the name "Mina M.
^ou ^ave also handed me certain papers in connection
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or. May 19, this office cannot recognise assignments under trusts
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promptly, and the notarial cony which vou left with me this
morning will bo filed with our records.
as Artn the original trust indenture conveys only
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WILLIAM LESLIE EDISON
EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH
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Thomas Edison, Jr. , in referenoe to a
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MEMORANDUM
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August M, 1910,
Mr. Churchill
Please arrange to have Stanley Barbor
?en,<* engine of the old Grout car by freight prepaid
616 park Avenue, Salisbury, Md.
I h^fg^taken Hh ^matter with Mr. Edison and he is
willing that this should be done*
Mrs. Edison
Dear Madam:
Enclosed please find check to your order for $3050.00, in
payment of 122 Edison Phonograph Works Bond coupons which were aurrendere
to me hy Mr. Miller Saturday.
Yours very truly,
P.S.
I am ready to redeem Bonds 85 to 96 inclusive.
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MEMORANDUM
Mr. Berggren: -
October 4th, 1910.
In reference to the proposed bill againBt
hdlson for the pigs furnished her from tho Hew York
Offioe amounting to $1178.95, I brought this matter up
to Mr. Edison yesterday and he wishes to have this charge
madeaagainst Mrs. Edison in the usual way, tho amount
however to be offset by the rent from the property at
Ho. 10 Fifth Avenue, which will be collected and turned
ovor to her. Please let me know if this is clear to you.
F. I. D.
FID/ ARK.
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I am with muoh respeot,
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1910. Edison, T.A. - Name Use (D-10-24)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
the use of Edison's name, whether authorized or unauthorized, for
advertising, trademark, or other purposes. Among the items for 1910 are
several letters from detective Joseph F. McCoy regarding plans to establish
a company to manufacture Edison's Polyform. Also included are letters
pertaining to storage battery trademarks and to a hearing aid called the
Edison Electric Ear.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected relate primarily to children named after Edison and to
confidence schemes involving his name.
Related documents can be found in the Legal Department Records.
Items concerning the use of the name "Thomas A. Edison, Jr." can be found
in D-10-21 (Edison, T.A. - Family).
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Mr. .Dyer: RE STORAGE BATTERY SIGNATURE OF THOMAS A. EDISON
Yfe have never registered in the United States any
trade mark for storage batteries, and I note that Mr. Edison's
signature is not placed on any part of the cell. I spoke to
Mr. Dodge in regard to this matter, and he informed me that he
did not know the reason for not using it and suggested that
it would he well for me to take the matter up with you.
JS
2?. D. Lewis,
MEMORANDUM
6/4/10.
Lowis suggests that Mr. Edison's signature
shoxild 1)0 used as a trade-mark on the batteries, ana 1 think
it is desirable that this ho done in order that all of our
products may ho characterized by the same mark. I wish you
would make arrangements to do this, and as soon as the mark
is adopted and actually applied to the batteries, lot mo
know, so that the mark con ho registered-
H.h/X’.v;-;
lir. hodgo:
F. h. D.
Intended for
Pittsburg Millionaire Placed
New Edison Instruments That
MagnifySounds 1 ,600 Times
. In Rooms of His Mansion
Wife Was "Tipped Off," and,
Being Threatened with Dl-
■ vrirce Suit, Held Bogus Con¬
versations with Her Lawyer
Husband Brought Children to
Nevii York, but Failed to De¬
liver Them to Her on Liner
for Europe, So She Returned
i ^ ^ flrei BarSiors fi K« chant jA^ncy Co ' ^
ROCKAWAY ROAD & BEAUFORT S
«TAMAICA,LOXG IS LAX
NEWYOKK CITY
Jamaica, H ,Y*.t Octoboi
31, 1910. ®/0
Mr. ThomaB A. Edison,
Orange , U. J
my dear Mr. Edison-
-rtci
I am being flooded with^iewspnplr clippings
)ingr
and requosts for information regarding an^ instrument
called the' Acoustophone which some reporter in litts-
burgh has brought into prominence in the Mellon divorce
case. I take it that this is purely based on the imag¬
ination of a reporter. I would, however, be pleased to
know if you arc manufacturing an instrument of this kind,
you, of courso, are well acquainted with the Acou3tioon
and I do not fool that you would allow the word "Acousto-
phone" to be used in connection with an instrument of this
class.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Very sincerely yours.
KMT. El©
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Ur. Holden:
j [ v \ MEMORANDUM
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Jr
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Referring to your nomoranduia o±' the loth inst. , ti
proposed license Iron tlr- Euieon the Edison
hf p • Co. is correct. 3c far us I
granted any specific rights to the
knov; , Ur. Edison has not
iso of his s&r.o in Germany
or other foreign countries and Hr. iSergnanr. is using the nemo
’Edison" -Largely as a matter of i: plied license going with the
sale of the Edison we might object to his using the
autograph signuturo, hut I do not think we would over object
to his using tho word "Edison" on genuine Edison batteries.
Therefore , X see no reason why you should not go right ahead
with the preparation of the papers for a trade -mar]: for tho
, D. Li. -2
Edison Storage Battery Company.
PED/lvAV
F. 1. 1).
1910. Edison, T.A. - Real Estate - General (D-10-25)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
purchase, rental, and sale of land and buildings. Among the items for 1910 are
letters by Frank L. Dyer, general counsel of the Legal Department, pertaining
to the land on which the Bronx studio was built and to the phonograph plant at
Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include offers of land for sale; routine correspondence
regarding rents and upkeep, mining properties, and cemetery plots; and
documents that duplicate information in selected material.
I discussed with Mr- F. die on tlic question of the
national fhonograph Co. y.ayin;' rent to the hatter;/ Co. for the
use of trie G? or. RiCgo plant, and he thinks a chars© of C’350.00
•per month should be nude. Find out from Mr- Aiken when he start¬
ed to work ! t Glen Ridgo and hill the national Co. for rent since
that date at the above firuro.
?".])/ X'tV'i' F. L. h.
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Mr. Dyer:
On June 20th 1905 Mrs. Edison purchased land in the Bronx
for $15,000. for which she holds the deed. On Oct. 25th 1907 the
Edison Mfg. Co. purchased land in the Bronx for $4,000. the deed for
which is at present in the possession ^Mrs. Edison.
On this land, covered By the above purchases, the Edison Mfg.
Co. erected the Building known as the Bronx Studio at a cost of
$81 , 424.23 ; the situation therefore is this: The Books of the Edison
Mfg. Co. show an investment in the Bronx Studio property of Building—
$81,424.23, land— $4,' '000. total— $85,424.23, which is an incorrect
showing, inasmuch as it lacks $15,000. of the complete cost of the
land. Furthermore, the land purchase of $4000. By the Edison Mfg. Co.
is not supported By a deed in its name.
In order to have the property recorded on the Books of the
Edison Mfg. Co. as a unit asset of the Company, Mrs Edison should Be
paid $15,000. and the two deeds now in her possession transferred to
the Edison Mfg. Co., which would place the value of the whole property
in the Bronx on the Books of the Edison Mfg. Co.
It seems to me that, it is more logical for the Edison Mfg.
Co. to acquire and own the land as well as the Building than to have
the matter stand as it is. Of course, the other alternative, in case
Mrs. Edison prefers to own the property, would Be to charge her with
the cost of the Building and the $4000. paid By the Edison Mfg. Co.
for the land, in which event the Edison Mfg. Co. should pay Mrs.
Edison a reasonale rental. I Bring this matter to your attention for
I Believe that it is something that should Be straightened out as
soon as possible.
Trusting you will give this your early consideration and
awaiting your instructions, I am
7/ii/lo.
I
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July 21, 191C.
Hoi' erring to your memorandum o f the 11th
inst. I have discussed the matter with Mr. Edison and we have
concluded to settle in this way:
Have Era. Edison charged with the 04,000 advanced
by the Edison Manufacturing Company for the land. I presume
the title to this particular land stands in the name of Mrs.
Edison, but if you find it does not, have the Legal Department
prepare a deed from the Edison Manuf aotur ing Company to Mrs.
Edison, a proper resolution being first passed by the hoard
of Directors, Remitting this to be done. The land will
then stand in Mrs. Edison's name as being paid for by her,
and the building will be in the name of the Edison Manufactur¬
ing Company. Then have the Legal Department prepare a lease
from Mrs. Edison to the Edison Manufacturing Company, giving
us a lease for 99 years to the property. We will then pay
a ground rent of say, $900 per year on tho lease, which will
wipe out the indebtedness of £4,000 in a little over four
years. Tho lease should provide that we will pay the neces¬
sary taxes on tho land, in addition to the ground rent.
ELD/ ARK.
E. L. D.
Sopt. IS, 1910.
Hef^rr£ng to your mcmoi-andum of the Gth inst.
attaching Propoeod foam of loaso covering tho Bronx Studio
property, I think upon rofloction that this lease would not
meet Ur. Edison’s approval, for tho reason that it rims for
a very lone period and definitely fires tho rental for all
the tamo. It might ho that in years to como tho rental
prioo would ho voiy much too low. I wish, therefore, that
you would find out from Ur. Hillor what the value of tho
land is that is to ho assigned to Mrs. Edison and how long
it will take for tho rontal money to pay for this land and
octtlo up Mrs. Edison's indebtedness to tho Edison Manufac¬
turing Company. Havo tho lease run for this period-,
which will probably ho five or ten yoars and provide in tho
lease that the Edison Manufacturing Comnany shall havo the
right to renow tho same for further periods of ton years
oaoh, the rontal price to ho adjusted according to tho value
oa tho property at tho time tho new louse is made, so that
tho rental prioo win hoar the same relation to tho now value
of the property as it does at tho present time. ivould such
a loose as this havo to ho recorded so that it would appear
as a lien on tho proporty?
E1D.J1BK.
Ur. Holden: -
Referring to your memorandum of October 6th,
I wi sh yon would write me briefly again what the situation
ic regarding this matter, because the details have escaped
my mind. Ab I recall the studio and part of the land wore
owned by Kra. Edison and another part of the- land was owned
by the Manufacturing Company and has been transferred to
Mrs. Edison. Then it was proposed that a rontal should bo
paid to Mrs. Edison based on tho land that she owned. If
it Is a fact that oho own<#s tho studio and that tho buildings
otoncl in her numo, then I think tho ront should bo higher,
because tho Manufacturing Company ought to pay tho seme ront
as they would if they rontoa tho building from some ono else,
look into tho mattor again and advise me what the situation
is so that I can take it up with Hr. Edison.
?. h. D.
FID/ ARE.
MEMORANDUM
ITovombor 17,1910.
Mr. Berggron:-
Roferring to your letter of the 9th inst.
on the subject of an adjustment of tho rental charges to be
made by the national Phonograph Company against the Edison
Storage Battery Company, I have taken up this mattor with
Hr. Edison and we believe, in view of your explanation, that
this rent should be adjusted and that the Storage Battery
Company Should pay a rental horosfter of 01333. 34 per month,
this to go into effect on ITovember 1st.
Please take up this matter with lir. Harry P. Hiller
end explain the situation to him and tho necessity for making
tho change.
P. 1. D.
FI®/ ARK.
-1612 _
MEMORANDUM
Mr. Borggron: ls/ia/lO.
Regarding the attached correspondence and replying
particularly to your letter of the 29th ult. , m view of the fact
that the original payment of §15,000.00 waB mado hy the Edison
Ufg. Co. , please take up the matter with Mr. Holden and have him
prepare a deed transferring the property from Mtb. Edison to the
Edison Hfg. Co., after which our hill for §4,000.00 against her
will ho canoelled. This will leave the entire Bronx property
in the name of the Edison Mfg. Co.
ERD/1VA7 F. 1. Byor,
1910. Edison, T. A. - Religion and Spiritualism (D-10-27)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's interest in religion and spiritualism. Included are letters from and
pertaining to the spiritualist, Bert Reese, as well as unsolicited responses to
published statements made by Edison denying the immortality of the soul and
expressing other religious opinions.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected,
including a sample of the unsolicited responses. Most of the sampled items
contain Edison marginalia.
EUSAPIA PALLADINO
MR. JAMES W. MORRISSEY - - - Manner
ENDORSED BY
Professor Charles Riche t
Professor Cesarc Lomhroso
Professor Enrico Moreselli
Professor Camille Flammarion
Dr. Gustave LeBon
Dr. J. Maxwell
Dr. J. Ochorowicz
Professor Schiaparelli
Dr. Charles Du Prel
Sir Oliver Lodtfe
Dr. Sahatier
M. and Mmc. Curie
The Scientific American
The New York Herald
The New York Sun
The New York Times
The New York World
The New York Tribune
The New York American
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Of Mortal’s Spirit
To This Earth Scoffed at
liy Prof. Edison. |
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“Wizard” Says There Is
No “Supernatural,”
As the Psychic Research- j
ers Have Put It.
Declares Investigation Should
Start at Material End-
Thin'lrs Immortality
Mere Myth. #
A*
SAMUEL FINE
OUN8ELLOR AT LAN
300 BROADWAY
N. Y . Oct* 3rd 1910,
IfH H ML. d-v4-je«f
Mr. TWS A. Edison, T. IcL t
llewelXyn Park, H. J. w+ + *,*, ti If, jL 1U «, fef
My Dear Sir:
I have read care furl Jr the, article by Mr,. Edward Marshall ^ .
■vje-w-c5 cu*< or— wiH ta. ^jlcm^CvUuZ. .
in the N. Y. Times of fctober 2nd {1910, entitled’ "No Immortality
. .. , . Mr fiJ+JiM** \v.o*.u -( fj.<yC t+hA^t^iCX+Mxt cHaC£k
of the Soul ", says Thomas A. Edison1 , anc{ because of j Its peculiar
interest to me, I tahe the liberty to addreS^tkese lines^^Ty^ fn
the hope that I may he assured of a ooinci&lng lelof your refere/^.
to the human brain and its comparison to a phonographic cylinder/
Uhile it is true that for the time being we have perfect
sound aa given off by the tongue, "when the necessary forces are set
in motion 'by the brain," is it not also true that some other "necessary
force" — perhaps we had better call it "unknown force" sets in motion
those particular precincts of the brain which enables it to create
desire and to distinguish our desires — such as music, speech, and the
very sounds of the phonography And is it not true that when the brain
no longer manifests those desires that life has become extinct, for
on your argument we must center life in the brain. Now why is it not
possible that thi3 "unknown force", this unexplained energy survives
and follows the rule of conservation?
All the visible energy we behold is but a modification of
another form of energy — in other words modern science concedes that
energy ia immortal, so to speak, then why not the unexplained energy,-
SAMUEL FINE
COUNSELLOR AT LAW
which actuates the brain in the performance of its functions— such as
notifying the body of what it should see, hear, feel, smell, taste.
I am inclined to differ with the remark credited to you
that "if a man haB a strong will he can force his brain to do etc."
because in my opinion the will i3 controlled by the brain. The test
is simple; there is no will without a brain, while there may be a
brain without a will. Will, therefore, originates in the brain; and ;tl
brain remains the soul judge directing the will to do and have done
those things which the body needs and which are for its good.
It is true that the brain is cellular in its construction,
and that its action may be likened to that of a phonograph, but the
cause of its action is different. The phonograph acts only when made
to do so by human or mechanical means, and in its destruction follows
the rule of conservation. The brain is also actuated in its work by
some "means" some unknown force. Why does not this force follow the
rule of conservation? In other words why :is not the brain, the
centre of motion (and therefore of life) of the human body immortal?
I thank you in advance for your early reply';
Yours very truly, f-,
[a itU Mu&ac.
■ \jjJd, (r'o *j/f cS to Q** Prof. Bert Reese
ijL 230 West 99th street^
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Dear Sir:-
A. Edison,
Orange, H.j.
Cinti, 0. Oct. 8th, 1910.
A voice from old "C"
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important to be marred.
Yours Very Sincerely,
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parently well authenticated oases of “appearences", and whioh are claim¬
ed to oontinue to the present day, would lead one to admit the poss¬
ibility that where there has been so much smoke, there might be some
little fire, were it not that science, taking oognizanoe only of matter
and the motions of matter, regards as apochyyphal, if not impossible,
the existence of anything else in the universe.
if it could he demonstrated however, that there _is a Something
Elga in the universe besides matter and motion, and that Something
Else is Intelligent, and practically Omnipotent, while it would not,
prove man's immortality, it would be' a step m that direction, for it
would at least show the existence of an Intelligent Entity, other than
oorporeal-man, and thereby remove the objection of the alleged impos¬
sibility of the existence of a self existent, intelligent ego.
Knowing your interest in science, I venture to address you and
trespass on your time, by aslcing you to favour me with an expression
of your views, as to whether the argument -which purports t.o demonstrate-
the existence of Deity- contained in the enclosed pamphlet, would hold,
or can be refuted. The importance of the subject being my excuse.
Thanh ing you in advance,
I remain,
Yours
P.S. I enclose extracts from some letters from scientists and
others, bearing on the tenability of my argument. J.P.s.
[CA. NOVEMBER 9, 1910]
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The fool sayeth in his heart thore is no God.
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Analyse and catalogue his love for thee, THOU SOUL.
As well deny the air which plays about thee everyway,
Aa well deny the eleotric current which thou canst not see nor weigh.
As well deny the serve force in thy body pulsing or. its way,
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Tolland, Connecticut.
Thomas A. Edison.
M1 r: iW
DearSlr:- cw"Ih
I was much interested in your
article on Immortality, and your experience with Prof. 3ert
Reese: I have been somewhat of a psychic researcher for .the
last 40 years and for several years was associated with Charles
H. Foster who was gifted with powers similar to Prof. Ree^p
and today I mail you some articles I have written for
Human i tar i an Review: By the way, for the last yea^'/he Review^
has had considerable discussion about you ae a Scientist ^C-/f
therefore probably you are familiar with 1 e'ma ga 7J. n fjpiu t will
mail these particular numbers no!twpth£t'andin|;: ^ifrere.
wonderful things to come from TjJj-i-s1 psych i c f|g£d,''and,.?f believe
you to be the man especially adapted'jfqr (the reseg'fch.
V’hen Roster was trying to show^hffe wonderful intuitive
gifts to the public it was difficult \to interest any/sclentlst
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the phenomena, but I belie
ti gati on.
Yours in admiration for the good work you have don?
an Egyptian Mystic, is going to undertake to duplicate Reese's
mind -reading performance, and afterward explain it.
there's to he no publicity of any sort about it— merely
a demonstration for a few interested people, among them my
brother-in-law, Mr. V7.J. Clark, of. the General Electric Co., whom
you know. •
I .have asked Dr. T.’illiam Hanna Thomson and I would be
most pleased if you can find time to coma in. If yon like
I would, be glad to invite Mr. Beaoh with whom— and Mr.' Clark—
I recently spent a most enjoyable day in your laboratories.
Very truly,
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Thomas A, Edison,
Orange, New Jersey,
KU. ^ November 23, 1910.
Dear Sir. fe-tj |
The enclosed clipping has bein handed to me, and, after reading it,
I was sufficiently interested to write you and ask whether or not the
statements as made are true. Without going into details, v/ill you
kindly write me whether or not the test as outlined in this article
was cade as stated. Merely "yes” or "no" v/ill suffice in your answer.
Realizing that you are an exceptionally busy man, I simply
ask for the short answer indicated above.
Thanking you in advance, I am
in
Yours very truly.
3UL.
Chiaago, Nov* 30, 1910*
Thomas A. Edison, Esq..,
Orange, H. J.
My dear Edison:
I see that your press agent has "broken
out again, airing your views as to Eternity. Your personal
views on matters theological are no one's business but your
However, you have no more right to
grieve your friends, tarnish a deservedly great renown, and
possibly mislead some weak soul by publishing that of which
you know little and have no authority to speak.
Possibly George McDonald's admonition
tDon't teach a child that it has a Soul: but teach it that
it ZS a Soul.", may enable you to reason out a future for
yourself other than one of ignoble obliteration.
We discussed this twenty-five years
ago, when you and "Baoh" ridiculed the beliefs that I then
had and now have. However, I did not think then and do
not think now that my belief , or your opinions , can be of
any interests. to the public.
While your views theological, like
W own, oarry no weight and are of no importance, yet there
are those whom I know will deplore and regret that you have
entered a polemical controversy for which you are illy
equipped.
Twenty-six years ago, at your request,
I named a son after you. He is one who has never dis¬
honored your name, nor ny own. I know that he will not be
pleased with the views recently expressed. X know also ‘J
those nearer and dearer to you, whom X have met in your
own home, who will find no oomfort in your recent utteranoes.
X am presuming to thus speak as one
who has known you more or less intimately for over v^n*
a oentury:- since we were boys together in ‘bdhool at Port
R. B. LOUDEN. Pr„. WM. LOUDEN, Vice-Prc. andSupt. C. J. FULTON, Sic. and Trial
LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY
Manafaetnrersof L0UdCI\ fi Tods ® ® ®
Barn Door Hangers, Feed and Litter Carriers,
West Broadway, near C„ R. I. & P. Depot.
Fairfield, Iowa, Den . l, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Ilev; York City. J)> 7,1
Dear Sir: fpfp
I write to commend you for your interview which
1 find in the papers. 1 am glad to know that vou have the
courage to take the stand which you do in opposition to
superstition. Your many contributions to invention and
science have been of great value to the world, but none of
them will be of greater value than the stand you now takeT
I believe with you that there is a supreme intelligence or
power which controls all, and that the only true revelation
of this intelligence or power is the book of nature . This
book is written in all languages, for all time, never needs
revision, and man's greatest duty here on earth is to study
it and follow its teachings. This book may bo somewhat
difficult to read and understand, but, with due application
and sufficient time, it will yield greater rewards than the
study of any . other book. All the improvements for the ben¬
efit of mankind that have ever been made have resulted from
the proper study of this book. Other books mnv be valuable
as reflecting the opinion? of others, and furnishing in a
measure, second hand knowledge which wo do not have the time
to acquire at first hands, but the study of the book of
nature is the foundation ofjyknowledge and advancement. I -a
mankind would devote one-half of the effort and t-ime which
is now wasted in speculations regarding the future their
condition here on earth would soon be many fold bettor than
I regard you as one of the pioneers who is biasing
the way in the wilderness, and I am glad to know that vou
have the courage of your convictions, and that you have dared
to attack the moloch of mysticism which more than anvthdnp
else has kept mankind in ignorance and suffering. ‘
With kindest regards, X beg to remain
Yours sincerely,
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W. E. TUTTLE
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Any Other Trade.
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I World is Golden
I ... Rule.
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Mr. Thomas A; Edison, 1
My Dear Sir:- Pardon me, an utter stranger to you; Tvithout
distinction of any sort: only an ordinary man of the common
people, for intruding thus upon your notice; but in view of your
utterances concerning religion and the question of a future life
beyond the grave, as published so prominently in the newspapers
of recent date, X am moved to ask:
3. IT the "Golden Rule" is your religion, what thjjnk.you
of Him who first enunciated that rule— "All things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Was
Jesus Christ what He declared himself to be, the Only-Begotten
Son of God, sent by the Father into the world to manifest God's
love to mankind and to be their Saviour: "That whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish . but have everlasting life . 11 ?
2. Can you truly belieVe in your heart that a personality
and an intelligence like your own, for instance, is brought into
existence only for the short period of this earthly life, then
to be extinguished and cease forever?
xour candid reply to the foregoing questions, would gratify
me, were you pleased to do me that honor. Wishing it may bo yours
to know the happiness and to possess the consolation enjoyed by
those who hold fast the blessed hope of that everlasting lif-,
promised by our nord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I am, with respect.
Sincerely Your
legrapher, 18G4-73.
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• A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, H. J. QjgJ^t -fCT
Dear Mr. Edison, -
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Dr. Carus, Editor of the* Monist, is an old frieAd 6T mine
I will enclose herewith'"^ letterj that^e^v^ote^nw^the otj^er day,
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seeking some authentic
s^inrgrmatiog Relative to yoijr views cjf im-
eLe^U, ) .
mortality as given in a^recent^ewiorlc1' pa^erl^^lx you'oan' oblige
relating/ to this matter,
.d greasy anureoiate-jme^favc
Dr. Carus with an;
I am sure he would
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THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
LA SALLE, ILLS. De0ember 3, 1910.
Mr. 3. Andrews,
Schenectady, Hew York.
My dear Sir:
The replies which Mr. Edison gave to reporters are repeated
in almost all the papers of the United States, and you can understand
that 1 take a lively interest in ?:r. Edison's propositions. You will
remember the talk whioh I had on Mr. Edison's views in the St. Louis
World's Fair, and I will now add that Mr. Hegeler, the founder of the
°pen .Court Publishing Company, published his views on the nature of
t^!L?.0Uli whioh wer« al“08t literally the same as the statements of Mr.
Edison, only with thi_s difference, that Mr. Hegeler saw nothing amiss with
this conception of the soul but found in it the immortality he longed for.
If Mr. Edison says that when he is dead nothing will be left offi him but his
phonographs and inventions, Mr. Hegeler would have said that that was Mr.
Edison himself, that was his soul, and in this surviving soul of hie he
will find his immortality. T wish to bring out this point and I should
like to possess as completely as possible the materials on hand. I would
like to know what Mr. Aked said, and I assume that Dr. Aked is the same
man who is now to be the pastor of Mr. Rockfeller's congregation.
If you are not in possession of this material, could you perhaps
through the kindness of Mr. Edison procure the materials for me. I expect
that if you address Mr. Edison himself in my behalf, he will not personally
be troubled but he can hand over the matter to one of his secretaries. I
should be much obliged to him as well as to you for assisting me in this
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W. S. Andrews — 3
matter.
I will further state that Mark Twain's views of the nature of the
soul ooincide with IJr. Edison's and Mr. Hegeler's. It is a pity that I
oan not bring it out at once. The latest Open Court has left and the
new Monist is almost completed. It would not do to make any changes in
the ourrent number without greatly disturbing our office forces as well as
the work of the composition room, but I suppose that what I will have
to say will still be timely after a few months.
I am at present greatly hampered in my work because of two consecu¬
tive accidents. I have become lame in both my knees and I must submit to
the doctor's treatment so as to save my strength to walk or recuperate as
much as possible, but I am hindered considerably in my work and this is
another reason why i feel like delaying the discussion.
I hope that Mr. Edison will be pleased, at least not displeased, with
my taking up this much mooted- subject . At any rate send him my respects
and assure him that I would have been very much pleased if I had had the
opportunity of meeting him personally.
I have just had a letter from Mr. Edwin Place, and I am rather asM
toniehed that he speaks of you as if you were not in Schenectady, but I
hope that this letter will find you.
Hoping to hear from you, and thanking you in advance for the trouble
you may take in my behalf, I remain,
New York . I Qt>
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THE WESTERN CATHOLIC.
Ohe 'Western Catholie\
. Pres, -and Trea3.
M. J.- Foley. .Mgr. and Editor
. Helihake Vic© Pres, and Sec’j;.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One year in advance . $1.00 1
Six months in advance.
Single copies - - -
Special rates on large space
and long time contracts.
Man without religion may
main an ordinary animal. ]
woman without religion becomes
a monster, like the '■shameless
thing that, recently declared that
Two children. should be. the limi
fixed by law.
An infidel Jewish preach<
dares that the Deluge
Noah’s Ark were myths. A local
preacher declares that the story
about Jonas and the fish is
fable. It is well for the Chi
>rld that
s here t
3m infidel Rab- I
“It is neither climate, nor
diet, nor bodily exercise which
forms the beauty of the human
form; it is the moral sentiment
of virtue which cannot subsist
without religion. Beairty of
countenance is the true phy-
siogn of the soul.” — Berriardin
of St. Pierre.
Well, well! So Mrs. Eddy is
dead ! If dead she is really dead,
and if really dead she died of
something real. She could not
die of a fancy, and if she could
she would not. But then she de-.
nied the reality -of death. .Mrs.
Eddy was a REAL bundle of j
contradictions. Yes,
the most real and notorious
word-juggler of the century.
Yes, she is dead, really dead,
dead of pneumonia — ;
ease mind you!
ay when the conductor on t
g his ti
has the ,sympt<
its incipiency. At periodic
1 of horror and in-
the prevalence of
graft and curruption in publi
of the American people
been most vocifei
against three formidable va
ties of grafters — the corrupt
politician, the true blood sucker j
body social and politic
| the octopian corporation, and
lan who fattens on insur-
protection. Our govern-
of the people, for the peo-
[ple, and by the people has been
largely a government of the
people by the grafter and for the
grafter, and it has not always
been government ; it has often
been misgovernment.”
The holiday seasor
e want to suggest
s that they send their Western
Catholic and any. other Catholi<*|
that they may have, to the
Catholic Chaplains in their re¬
spective states; if you live in
Illinois, send them, to Catholic
Chaplain, Joliet; or Chester, or
; if in Missouri, to Jeffer-I
•ty, and so on. Each
We take great pleasun
ing our readers’ attenl
our history of the R<
Richey, printed on the first page
of this issue. It makes very in- j
terestirig reading and
give a fair idea of this promi-l
nent convert — a worthy follower
of Newman, Manning, Brown-
son, De Costa and oth<
who have found a home ft
peace and security in Chffrch of
God. We also call ajlention
the Rev. Mr. Richeyfs "answer’
to his Anglican friends. How
clear, calm and . . dignified ! ’ No
. "mud slinging” at those who
differ from him. Compare his
'.answer to the foul - exhalations
that come from the poisonous
weeds that have been plucked
from the Rope’s garden and
thrown over the garden wall of
the Catholic church. Yes, we
request our non-Catholic and|
Catholic readers to think
ously on . this matter As we I
stated, Mr. Rickey was the foun-|
der and editor of an able Angli¬
can paper, and as an inkling of J
his ability along those lines,
read his article printed on 1
' editorial 1 page, on “Edison
-Agnostic.”
some unfortnate Catholi
mates. Write a short n...
the Chaplain telling him what
you have done, and he will- look
for them, one letter will do. Ask
see that the papei
er Catholic literature
[may send,' gets, into the hands
of the Catholic inmates. Think
of what happiness and hope you
may ' bring to some mother
darling, who has eried and at
is tempted to de
our young Catholic
would start this practice, asking
their friends for any copies ‘
Catholic papers they may hai
they can do awvorld of good ;
[they do not wish to send them
the prisons, send them
workhouses; aim house:
hospitals for the patients
valescing. Do not t
jyou love Christ, if you a
willing to spend one cent ;
for postage to brighten and
cheer' some heart shut away
from the world. Our Lord has
“When I was in prison you
i me, and whatever you
did for the least of these my
brethren you did it to Me.” We
hope our exchanges and the
clergy will send the word along,
and start this practice in their
respective localities.
nay ask Mr. Edison how, th<
le is able to believe in a £
illigncce? Does he get
impression from
: at large? If s<
Supreme Intelligence
lively
Hiir
terial surface?
If the brain,* as he
just like a phonograph record,
which receives only such impres¬
sions as are individually made
upon it, how could belief
[Supreme Intelligence exist
(less that belief be, itself, a
dividual and distinct impres-
Has Mr. Edison a me
of putting his brain-record
solution and getting a general
impression from these
individual impressions? or, does]
rather gather this impres-
| sion- by means of some other fac¬
ulty which presides
[and draws conclusions from the
impressions made upon the
How. could Mr. Edison
if he were solely dependent up¬
on the action of material impres- 1
sions? H could not do so, be¬
cause the invention itself would
then have to be one of those
[impressions. If r
thoughts,” but “o
cords that
sfons from our environment;,’
'bich v
ention
imply a phot
graph or duplicate of somethii
already invented.
With Mr. Edison, familiarity
with thought (along : ~
has bred contempt
[should have multiplied amaze-
It has not failed
with those more generally
thoughtful than himself.
Sometimes his inventions have
demanded concentrated
prolonged thought. When
grew wearj* and appealed
i to let - ‘ •
ued to make it labor be-;
he could not sleep before
> solved the problem
[which he was working.
The material impression
>e brain was, that it must
rest. What was it that d
ated this impression and forced
the brain to labor on? It wa
the Will— something quite apai
[from the brain, essentially in:
material, and in this, case at
•OSS purposes with the brain.
Why did the Will employ thi
Dr. G. Frank Lydston of Chi-|
■ cago, in an address delivered b<
fore the St. Joseph Medical So
ciety at South Bend, Lid., re
cently, declared: “A study of
graft is a stifdy of the human
nature;” says Dr. Lydstt
graft microbe lies in wait deep1
down in the system of the aver
age good citizen. It feeds ot
opportunity and necessity. Tht
individual who yearns for the.
railroad pass or looks the other]
EDISON AN “AGNOSTIC/’
Mr. Edison says he is not a
atheist, for he believes “in a St
preme Intelligence.” He has
grave doubts, -however, as to any
[Revelation whatsoever. Of the
whole Counsel of God,
if it; he says: “Don’
understand it.” Therefore
he -puts himself in that class
known as agnostics, who declare
there is no means of knowing]
these things.
If there are no - such means,
then Mr. Edison, doubtless, per
iforms an intellectufaf miracle
when he declares he
atheist but believes in a Supreme j
[intelligence.
s difficult to see how any-
an believe without faith,
belief is the operation of
faith. If Mr. Edison has faith
mough to believe in a Supreme
Intelligence, then, to that extent
bstance of. things hoped for.
the evidence of things not seen,”
glorious Apostle tells us, we
no longer believe Mr. Edi-
when he says — "Everything
material. We have no
thoughts. Our brains are like
| records that take impressions
servant? It was because tht
:ason, another faculty, used
good offices with the Will to
persuade it that it must, for good
reason, make the Drain labor on.
And why did the Reason per¬
suade the Will to so act ? It
was because the Motive, behind
them all, made known its [
[and purposes -.to the Reason.
see, then, that the brain
medium for impressions
come to it from opposite
[sources, and ouj- thoughts
not “simply impressions which
we get from outside.” These
other interior facultie:
from the brain
[outside objects which
through the senses, and
impressed upon it. “There
spirit in man and the inspiration]
of the Almighty • giveth them ]
understanding.”
To acknowledge a Supreme]
Intelligence and thus
the Supreme Truth in one breath |
is simply a case of acknowledg¬
ing the Crucified as King a
then reviling Him as such:
Mr. Edison, probably, has
iuch deliberate intention ; j
•ve can say this with the m
studied reflection because
;entleman has made it perfectly
lear to us that he docs not kno
his own Mind.
J. A. M. RICHEY.
v of this statement
MRS. EDDY.
Mrs. Eddy is dead, and t1
| greatest religious mountebank |
s century is no more.
nd disease she denied
also did her follow¬
ers who were at her bedside
when she breathed her last. The
cult she founded is neither
Christian nor scientific. Be-
luse she neither believed in a
personal God; the divinity of
Christ; the trinity; the power of.
a judgment after
death, in fact she held some 61
Ingersoll’s ideas, under th'e pre- i
tense of a belief in Christ. Her]
she says matter does not
only mind exists; disease
or; a man with one leg
vo if in his mind he be-
it. And such rot ex¬
plained by neither common.
:nse or reason.
The followers of Mr. Edd^>
re a self satisfied lot of people,
imagination is greater than their
and who arei
looking for some sop *o_ease
their
Only mind
| finite! and such generalities I
used without clearness, in a I
way that no intelligent person'
[can fully grasp just what they]
[do hold. In the Catholic church]
s-year-old child can tell you/
the fundamentals of his church;
Scientist of 40 who could make
clear to you just what he be- 1
lieved? Christian Science is
Spiritualism gone to seed, and
followers, many of whom are
od people, though blinded,
>uld be just as good out of its
. We m
say that Christian-
infidelity; for if there
judgment after death
Mrs. Eddy held, then Chri
' ig was in vain, the redemp- ]
s a myth ! for what is the
or state that does not
Christ’s sufferings were
in, since she (Mrs. Eddy),
[pays He was “only” the \\
wer. As .understood by
i-Catholics, and in fact
ly with a personal God;|
Christ’s divinity, jud;
[ death, what is there left of the j
[Christian religion? Mrs. Eddy’
[followers will now be kept busy
Explaining away her dea
id on, trying
[forget that their founder died
the rest of us will die, £r<
some disease.
‘A DEAD TOAD ON WHITE ]
LILIES”
Is the description given by
the New York Journal’s critic
bn th’e play Salome. The New,
York Evening Post calls it “a
‘flagrant offense against common
decency and morality.” The
'New York Evening Mail said:
“Salome’s place is in the library
of the alienist. It should
|The Outlook said : "The man’s
(Oscar Wilde’s) story cannot be
any public print, and Sa-
[lome belongs to his degenerate
period. Its principal motive is
which hardly can.be made
subject of conservation be-
veen self respecting men.” Mr.
[w. J. Henderson, one of the
ablest musical critics in this, or
[any other country, says in the
New York Sun: “Not a single
[lofty thought is uttered by any
| personage except the prophet,
conceded that none of
| the other characters can coir
The
lewdness, be-
ial appetites and abnormal
[carnality.” This hideous play,
the work of the degenerate Wil-
stipprcssed after one
[performance at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York,
ne months ago. It was not
idemned by the
vordly - theater patrons
[ATTACHMENT]
■> Moo&lanti Ibome >•
Thomas A. Edison,
Menlo Park,
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1. i
. Sear §ir:— Being much interested in the assault made upon
ypur views by Oharles F. Aked and other clergymen i have thought
that you might care to read what 1 have said about this matter in
10 *»" 1 •»«*«. submit the
Chin ThrS ReV’ Joh" Thompsotl of JWieaton, Illinois, who is by the
says? 0Ur"al °alled "0ne of the fading thinkers of the church,"
"Edison's opinion on the question 'of a future life
* n° value whatever. X have made a lifetime study
of the bible and church work, and I believe I am better
qualified to render a sound opinion on the subject than
fSture'lif! athelst but an agnostic on the
f ; The fallacy of View is obvious. Every
conception has a reality back of it. Universal mind
has conceived a future state. Even the American Indian
and the pagan believed in a future reward. Therefore
future 6 a°me:reality behind this conception of
future life. The early church conception of hell
however, has given way to a more sane view."
L°mPSOn helices tt^t he is better qualified than is Mr.Edison
the bible « sound opinion because he has "made a lifetime study of
he »•" How does this lifetime study better qualify him’ Has
he mental gifts superior to those of Mr. Edison and others and do
isepoessS?blCealtoS1c2lnenabl0 hJB t0 arrive at a than
s possible to common, everyday mortals? Must a person study the
«>•«•*<> «*»«* be,;,:”:
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students.' His mother had told him that certain things were true,
and she being his superior in years and in presumed knowledge he
had accepted her statements as facts. it had never occurred to him
that his mother might have been ignorant and misinformed; that she
might have received her alleged knowledge from an equally ignorant
and misinformed mother — and so on all the way back. As he grew
older it had never occurred to him to investigate the subject for
himself in order to discover upon what authority his mother based
her statements, but he had been content. to go through life with no
other information than that which he had derived from his mother.
Consequently he never discovered that the so-called' "sacred writings"
are purely anonymous; that they were certainly written long after
the alleged events therein recorded took place, the gospel attributed
to John having been composed late in the second century; that the
book ascribed to the apostle James was undoubtedly written about
the year 150 A.D., its authorship being utterly unknown; that "Saint
Peter" was never heard of until about the year 400 and that his
entity rests entirely upon tradition, which tradition contradicts
itself in important particulars, the result being that, as Judge Ladd
says, "under the most liberal rules of evidence we are compelled to
deny that such a person as Saint Peter ever existed. Dr. Thompson
never learned that the virgin birth, the sign of the cross, the
eucharist, baptism, the trinity and every other feature and doctrine
of the Christian church was taken by that church from older religions;
and that not. one of those features, rites or ceremonies originated
with or was peculiar to the Christian sect. And yet. this same
"loading thinker" has the effrontery to pose as the superior of
Thomas A. Edison and to be better qualified than he to render a sound
opinion upon the subject of the biblical writings! How well
qualified he is may be judged from the following declaration:
"The fallacy of Edison's view of a future life is
obvious. Every conception has a reality back of it.
Universal mind has conceived a future state* Even the
American Indian and the pagan believed in a future reward.
Therefore there must be some reality behind this concep¬
tion,. »
And so it appears that it is necessary only for "universal mind"
to "conceive" something and this conception "therefore" becomes a
reality? This declaration may justly be classed among the state¬
ments which are "important if true." But is it true? The
"universal mind" of the American Indian "conceived" a heaven which
is a happy hunting-ground, in preparation for which he has buried
with him his horse and other things required for the chase.' If we
may credit Dr. Thompson this conception has a reality behind it and
"therefore" the departed red men are now engaged in slaughtering
the buffalo and the antelope just as they did while on this earth.
The "universal mind" of the Mohammedan "conceived" a heaven in which
he is to enjoy the embraces of unlimited black-eyed houris. ,0f
course this conception will also be realized for the reason above
•Ed is on -#3
stated. The Christian's heaven is peopled with "the blest, ''"who
wear golden crowns, play on harps and sing everlastingly in praise
of their god who sits upon a throne for a description of which see
the fourth chapter of Revelation. The "universal mind" of Christiare
having "conceived" this sort of a heaven there must be some reality
behind it; and the "universal mind" of other peoples having “conceived'
various kinds of future existences all of them will "therefore"
become realities.
But just here arises the question, which of all these diverse
"conceptions'" is going to be the real thing, because obviously some
of them must be mis-conceptions. Can it be possible that in all of
these "universal minds" "the wish has been father of the thought;"
that "universal mind" has been drawing upon its imagination for its
alleged facts; that it is not going to realize its conception after
all, and that Mr. Edison's view of the- matter is not fallacious in
spite of Ur. Thompson's confident pronouncement? And also can it
be possible that "a leading thinker" may not do any real thinking
but simply imagines that he thinks?
Dr. Thompson admits that the early church's "conception" of
hell has "given way to a more sane view." Since the "universal
mind" of the early church "conceived" a heaven and a hell but has
now "conceived" that a hell does not exist, (may we not reasonably
suspect that when that church becomes still farther enlightened it
may also take a saner view of Its alleged heaven, admitting, that
it was just as much in error in this "conception" as it now confesses
that it was concerning the other? Or- will Dr. ’Thompson contend
that the church has reached the limit of its concessions to modern
enlightenment and will therefore firmly dra^ the line at its long-
delayed and reluctant relinquishment of a hell?
But why has Dr. Thompson and the church generally abandoned
the hell-fire dogma? Have they done it because they have discovered
that there is no evidence in support of this doctrine? Certainly
not. The "evidence" is just as strong, today as it ever was, for
if the gospels can be relied upon for anything it surely is that
there is a hell. See Matthew, v, 22 and 29; ditto x, 2b; ditto
xxiii, • 33; Luke, xvi, 23, etc., etc. In the fac.e of these explicit
declarations why does Dr. Thompson and the church "take a saner view"
of this matter? Is it a voluntary ,act on their part? Wo, indeed.
They have discarded this doctrine only because the people in the pews
would no longer tolerate or listen to such teaching. You will search
in vain through all of the history of the church for a single instance
in which it has upon its own initiative abandoned the ground upon
which it originally stood. It has been only when its victims have
rebelled against an obnoxious doctrine and threatened secession that
the priest has in his fright yielded the disputed point in order
to save his ministerial life and avoid the dreadful necessity of
earning his bread honestly. "Believe or disbelieve anything you
■Please, only do not throw me out of my job," he piteously pleads
and shifts his ground accordingly, tho result being, as Ray Stannard
Baker says in the American magazine, that
"The Protestant churches, as churches, may be said
indeed to have no longer any very positive convictions
or any definite purpose. They no longer believe their
own creeds . Scarcely two ministers — let alone two
denominations — agree either on doctrine or on methods
of work."
As 1 have seen only so much of your views and of the attacks
made upon you as have appeared in telegraphic dispatches you will
confer a favor if you will supply me with fuller information in
both respects. 1 saw that Dr. Aked threatened to demolish you
in a series of sermons, and 1 should much like to know just how
he performs that little job, the presumption being £hat he
possesses information concerning the future life that is not
accessible to the general public. 1 also observed that while
he denied your right to express an opinion because you have solved
no metaphysical problems he considers Tennyson to be good authority
because he wrote "1 hope to meet my Pilot face to face when I have
crossed the bar," .although he does not pretend that the poet laureate
had ever solved any problem, metaphysical or otherwise.
Congratulating you upon having the courage- of your opinions
I am very truly yours,
. ^-vS.CUvvJuJie/
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Dear Sir:- Is it not quite as possible that the
strand-power exhibited by Prof. Reese is a rudi¬
ment of a faculty or power possessed by some an¬
imal ancestor as that it is a prophecy of powers
with which the future man is to be endowed?
Very respect fully
S.
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- ■ _ _ _ TIT K DHXVKIi. POST AV K E K T, T EDITH
Inventor Edison Declares Death Wil i End Ail and
fie Will N<?t Play a Harp or Be Boiled in Oil
Only Religion Needed in the World Is the
Golden Rule and He Would Have It
Enforced by the Police,
FLAYS FASHIONABLE MINISTERS WHO
SERVE AS MATTER OF BUSINESS
Time Not Far Distant When Man Can Be Put
In Cold Storage for Months, Warmed
Up Again and Sent Away Well.
New York, Nov. 30. — Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who
eon My was attacked by the. Rev. Charles F. Aked and by Henry
Prank and others for what they called his “atheistic views,’' has
replied to their criticisms.
That’s it,” lie said. “I’m an atheist now, am I? These people
ivho call me to account do not even read what I havo said. I am not
m atheist, never havo boon and never said I was. I believe in a su-
10 intelligence, but I have grave doubts as to whether you and I
.11 xi ir good folks of this earth arc going to be roused from
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intefv.-i.ov; With you from o/.hy Edward Marshal, relating tH* imortn'!-*-
a'>3e. The ijcterest r have at present is the authors you quoted: W.H. Thomson,
"Brain and Personality " of which r secured at the Public library hero, hut
was not able to get the other author Mondoloff ,nor does it appear that you
state • any special writings of his. Will you kindly inform me by first mail
how or where r can secure his works or writings? rara pursuing course having •
as its chief aiu;nore rational and consistent Religious and Political toachingj
M^views in a word are :that the moral and political Dogmas of the world, are
responsible for the Royerty-^d Crimes .that infest society. rn the place of
Religious revivals, and political campaigns, well organised Inteligenoe would
assort better with Social Functions. I would like a word of enlightenment , or
of encouragement , if you are prepared to make the offer.
Very Respectfully,
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ThoB. A, Bdison,
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n6Q.30th.I9IO,-
Neticing.in on* of the New York papers,
that yen are being critioisod, by the orthodox clergy, for yew religions
views .which seem to me to be worthy ef all acceptation, by ell honest and
intelligent people,! take the liberty of sending you, by this mail,* lit¬
tle brochure, containing my own religi©,?s viewa.which seem be aln»st
i denticle with your own.
I have long had the very highest admiration and regard fer you and
your won^rful works, sincerely believing that yen have been a better sew
ant of C^P.and worth far mare to humanity .than all the Akeds in the world.
Wishing yen long health and happiness, that, you may t>s permitted .du¬
ring the coming years , further t« act «& a wiBe interpreter *f the ways e!
Rod to m^jrevealing His latent forcee.and interpreting His wonderful and
many most beneficent laws,! am, !
THE DAILY LEDGER, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2
EDISON SAYS IS
LIFE IS THE END
N BIOPSIS — A View of Life
(By Albert E. J oab.) ^
Inventor Denies Being Atheist,
but Doesn’t Believe in
Hereafter.
To all lovers of reunions liberty, these lines are respectfully dedicated. ^
Within Iny study, nil alone tonight, Of awe, of adoration and delight,
Where welcome silence reigns supreme, save that „✓ For all these wondrous works— instinctive love.
The stoic time-piece, on the wall, tells off . Innate religion, that spontaneous flow.
The precious houre, in accents sad and low, From every human henrt? No man con say,
In retrospective, melancholy mood, And yet the prigs and pigmies of the world
I wander through the vistas of the jpast. tio forth, with owMikc gravity, and tell
Us everything; and lose the common herd.
For years. I’ve wandered o’er this globe, the work Within a dizzy maze, of creeds and schisms,
And architecture of the great First Cause; —Of sects and schools, of doctrines and beliefs.
NO HARP PLAY FOR HIM
In Reply to Critics Says Golden
Rule Is Only Real Religion,
and Is All That Is
Needed.
O’er ocean, lake, o’er mountain, dale and stream, More dark and intricate than was the famed
Through every nation, every land and clime, , Old Cretan labyrinth; each pious fraud
To study all the peoples, all the laws. Proclaiming his the one and only true
And drink deep draughts of all true wisdom, from , Religious faith, the only road to life;
The primal fountain source. Dame Nature’s book, Like quacks, that vend* their drugs, in public ways,
And now, footsore and tired, I sit me down, . And this they call that simple Christian truth, ‘
To meditate upon my wanderings, Which he who runs, though ignorant, may read.
1910. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Advice - General (D-10-28)
This folder contains routine correspondence suggesting improvements
in Edison's inventions, asking him for advice on technical matters, or
requesting his assistance in improving or promoting inventions. Also included
are unsolicited letters from inventors about their work.
A sample of less than one percent of the documents has been selected.
Most of the selected items contain Edison marginalia.
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Dear Sir:
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KfflROpSA' rigNS^h Jjg*. N
SINGER OR PLAYER, WITHOUT WRITING
WITH A P.E® ON STA.r'P PAPER.
One Has to pay a price to get a music teaciier to
write out a song that one lias composed, onto staff paper, and
1 do not know of any means of recording automatically any
piano or instrumental piece, which one has improvised.
*ho Phonograph , as it seems to me, interferes with
the freedom of composition .being too sot and mechanical in
i*'8 °Per,ition. One might record an improvisation upon it
by singing , whistling , piano playing, or playing' of an instru¬
ment, but it would be liard to translate that record into proper
ly written music on staff-ruled paper.
The following are three crude ideas about this
matter, and they are submitted to you for consideration and
for working out if there is any kernel of merit
T.A.J£.(2)
I: V/ould it not be possible to photograph the
record on the Phonograph cylinder of any song or improvisa¬
tion, and by .laying the photograph out flat, to discover the
relations of the notes that v/ould be similar to the music
written on the staff paper?
IToto:- 1 assume that the voice or in¬
strument when it sounds , makes im¬
pressions on the Phonograph cylinder
of small depth or greater depth, which in
their distance from each other, and in
their relation to each other , correspond
to the notes written with the pen on
staff-ruled paper.
XX: Recently I saw in the "Newark News" of Satur¬
day ,Pobruary 19th, I think, a small flat paragraph in double
column , which described the experiments that some German pro¬
fessor had made in causing different lines of gas-burner
flames to respond to movements of the voice in singing.
Remark :- It immediately occurred to me
that tiiis method ought to be adapted for
the automatic recording of improvisations
or music regularly played and sung.
It occurred to me that these
flames should move with the movements of
tire voice, and that the length of the
flames should be recorded on a continuous
running , highly sensitised photo¬
graph paper, which should move auto¬
matically .corresponding to the time
of the music.
Or else the line of flames
should be moved automatically in
unison with the time of the music
in front of the sheet of higlily
sensitised photograph paper.
Ill: -The third idea is derived from a German in¬
vention for duplicating typewriting. I once translated the
Specifications of a German patent , according to which,a second
typewriter was arranged to operate in unison with the first
and make a stencil jO^'chablon" of the original written by
the operator. Afterwards the typewriter was arranged to
feed into tnis stencil on the organntto plan and reproduce
the writing a number of times.
This plan could be adapted to a piano ,by having
a series of punchers attached to each key, so that the play¬
ing of the music would produce an organette stenciljand from
the relations of the perforations on the stencil the regular
pen-written staff music could be made.
Please oblige me by acknowledging this letter, and
stating whether or not,any of the suggestions are feasible
be worked out. All this may be chimerical, but I
and
I’.A.E. (4)
hope you will let me in on -this great invention".
If such an invention could be made, it might be
made to catch many of the" lost chords"that fade into oblivion.
It wouHfb'ca -great convenience to everybody and would have an
International sale.
Trusting to hear from you, I beg to remain,
Very respectfully yours,
Dict.H.E.S.
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released tho governing stop which permitted the packages next
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Pocatello, Idaho, June 2, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:
Please find enclosed copy of drawings and speoifioations of
Dynamo Ventilator for which I have been granted Letters Patent
No., 919,203.
I desire to have you give the descriptive matter your oare-
ful reading and attention. It is not worth the while for to rehash
over the many advantages of this system of ventilation, only I
would more partioulary call your attention to the value of the
Ventilating Device in mining and mill work where there is an excess
ive amount of dust, heat and moisture.
Would this Ventilating Device have a tendency to give a mon¬
opoly to the manufacture of motors subject to the hardest usage.
Your reputation and knowledge of eleotrioal oontrivances make
you about the last person I would care to approach with with a
worthless invention.
If the invention is of merit in your estimation would like to
correspond with you to have you manufacture the same. if not please
enclose the descriptive matter in enclosed cove Bind return the same
Yours respectfully,
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Mr. D. i*'. secord,
f260 Spadina Avenue ,
Toronto , Ont . , Can.
Dear Sir:
Tours of tlio 16th inst. , regarding
a now form of Primary Batteries, is recoived.
Mr. Edison has directed me to write
you that if you have your idea patented, lot us know
what it is and ho can tell at once if it is valuable.
3£ours very truly.
GEO. A. HENDERSON '.ff*'
OFFICIAL REPORTER' •; '•.*?, \
ed States Courts for the Southern DfeVRiCT
of West Virginia . ' i.V? ^ A *;•’
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Herbert H. Dyke, Esq.,
Edison Legal Deprtment,
Orange ,N.J.
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My dear sir:
The enclosed article is self-explanatory, and is
sent to you before X make any effort to publish it, in the hope
that I may secure, perhaps througi Mr. Edison, the co-operation
I believe I could finally secure in the event of its publica¬
tion from ^^’prospective source!
As you will note, this machine's intention dates back
to 1905, and applications for Letters Patent therefor have been
made by me since then. I have done considerable work in this
regard, but not being a Patent attorney,' and having been more
or less lax in pushing the applications and correspondence with
the patent office, as well as in the actual manufacture of the
machine, on aocarat of lack of funds, more than inclinatL on, it
has not developed as rapidly as X know it would with sudi help
as I am now endeavoring to get, for the first time.
If the invention is in any way interesting to Mr.
°r y0U’ 1 W0Uld asl£ that you write me accordingly, and
/, thsn submit to ycu a proposal involving the building of a small
machine, there or here, and the perfecting of various sib cif ica-
GEO. A. HENDERSON
CHARLESTON. W. VA„
-tions accanpanying t$e applications for Letters Patent, and
would send to you copies of these papers,with drawings, for
this purpose, together with a proposal to furnish half of the
money that might have to he hereafter expended in the enterprisa
I have purchased my client's entire interest in the invention,
and believe, with the mere suggestions of Mr. Edison, its suc¬
cess would soon he assured.
Kindly advise me at your convenience, and very
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George A. Hendereon, Beq.,
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Dear Sir:-
I have your favor of July 6th, and must ask you to
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George A, Henderson, Esq.,
Post Office Suilding,
Charleston, V/. Va.
Dear Sirs
I return herewith the artiole entitled "Mastery of
the Air" enolosod with your letter of June 20th.
Personally, I am in no position to do any of the
things which you suggost in your letter, both because of the
laok of time and also booause of the same reason to which you
ascribe your own comparative inactivity.
The article in quostion has been submitted by me to
Mr. Edison and he has the following suggestions to offer:
That the reference in the article to a rate of 500
miles per hour should bo very greatly reduced or made indefinite
if this artiole or a similar one is published, because if so
high a rate of speed as this is asoribed to the device, it
will be likely to scare away capital whioh might otherwise be
interested, as the reader would be likely to regard the entire
scheme as visionary and chiraerioal, even if, as a matter of
fact, such a speed could be obtained, whioh he regards as doubt**
ful.
GA1I #2
Ha further suggests that before spending any money,
aoma of the fundamental experiments in connection with the
general plan should he conducted and data obtained thereon,
aa it ia his experience that .air never acts in practice as it
is expected to do in accordance with theory. Ho further
suggests that the projected machine of the dimensions suggested
in the article is getting at the problem on too large a scale,
and that all practical points in connection with the device
should be first determined experimentally by moans of a small
or even a toy model.
Hr. Edison is interested in so many other lines of
investigation and research that ho feels that it would be
impossible for him to take up thiB matter along the lino which
you have tentatively suggested or along any other lines which
might hereafter be suggested. I trust you will be able to
interest other capital in the devioo and be able to carry it
to a successful conclusion.
Yours very truly,
The Telegraphic MailCo.
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tell the inventor how he has to stick to hiB
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to adverse criticism, you do not tell him how ha
can finance his v/ork and hov? he con save himself
from the hungry and desperate "sharks" who call
themselves promoters or financiers.
nn - *.! *!? £0V?lorij}e something almost
as important as the telephone (enclosed is a
brief description) and I find that my greatest time
"sharks financine !ma def( ending myself from the
I have succeeded up to now,
hut it cost me almost my life, and do not know how
long t can stand the fight.
It is on this point that vour
experienced advice would he most valuable and
highly appreciated. V" me.
Very respectfully yours.
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school of Application in Tuvin. ?~“llT?°r “anaea“ient of the T?ovai
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honors. 1 ™e Italian Army, and has also won other
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Newark, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Dallas, Texas, July l
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You have made a success in the world, - through natural /C
talent, dilligence, and intelligently direoted efforts. You have
seated many things of practical use, and you, of all others, Bhould
ar« “o know that nothing can be accomplished along this line without
sufficient funds to oarry out suoh work. Much money and time have
been wasted on so-called “patents," few of whioh would have been of
any great practical value, even though they had performed the service
for which they were intended.
« . N?"» “to my reason for writing you. Myself and another
party here (he being a thorough and practical mechanical engineer,
having perfected successfully various devices and machinery, both
large and small, for numerous parties during the past fifteen years)
are desirous of seouring funds to have built a set of four automobile
wheels, of a type designed to replaoe the ordinary "pneumatio tire"
wheels, in use at the present time. We want to have these wheels
made in first-olaes workmanlike manner, and have parties here who are
willing to furnish ample capital for manufacturing and marketing same*,
after we have demonstrated to them that we have something which is
really praotical and meritorious in every way.
The whole oountry haB been working and looking for some
real ana practical substitute for the "pneumatic tire" wheel, fox
use on automobiles, and many vain attempts hhve been metfe to pro-
duce suoh a wheel. Neither myself, nor the party to be associated with
me in this matter, hkve ever seen anything along this line which
would serve practically and satisfactorily the purpose for whioh it
was intended. However, we have, after experimenting a great deal
along this line, designed a wheel whioh will, from every point of
view, suooessfully replace the ordinary "pneumatio tire" wheel, and
in-° aotual UBe> revolutionize the manufacture and sale
Bomejlhing entirely different to anything yet
alonE this line and yet it consists of only already well-
known and practical mechanical principles, simple, durable, efficient,
and can be furnished for a reasonable price. 1
I want to borrow about $700.00, to enable us to have built
in good shape a set of four 34-inoh wheels, which we shall put on a
oa? and demonstrate, beyond question, their real and praotioal
value. After this has been done, of oourse, there will be no diffi-
the wheelse0Urlng noce0sary oaPita* for the manufacture and sale of
flight *7 °o?oluBi°n> that our idea is no fanatical
flight of fanoy, but is based on well-known, sensible, and praotioal
and we only need the amount mentioned above to cover cost
h vine^a ?odel! or "BamPle" set of wheels, and we oan then, with¬
out doubt, furnish the public with that for whioh many miole have been
working without euooess. We know what praotioal mecbanloal principles
are, and we know what we can do with that which we have produoed, aai
only ask an opportunity to demonstrate what we have.
I oan and will furnish you with unquestionable references
as to our ability, honesty of purpose, etc., and while my aotion in
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give me favorable consideration, and that you can see your way plear
to lend me the amount mentioned above, §700.00, to be used as stated
above, for which I am willing to pay liberal rate of interest, after
I have proven to you that we are thoroughly reliable, and are only
desirous of demonstrating that we have something of real merit aid of
immense practical value.
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in replying, and will thank you sinoerely to let me hear from you at
your earliest convenience, remaining.
Very respectfully yours,
618 Ross Avenue.
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fruit under any fall of temperature lihely to occur. Thi3 is where
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Recently, while working along privately in experimental
physics with certain materials, part of the apparatus at the
time being a blow-pipe and some glass tubing, I discovered
what I believe to be a solution of the problem of making the
incandescant electric lamp without the use of platinum. How¬
ever, in the face of what seems to me the fact of accomplish¬
ment, both theoretically and practically, I wish merely to
make a modest statement of my belief rather than an assertion
that I have done so.
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it would suit you to do so, I should like for you personally
to pass on my ’work. The design of the lamp differs from the
commercial article only in the kind of conductor leading to
the filament. In appearance it remains the same. with
your laboratory facilities, putting such a lamp to a searching
test could be easily and quickly done. X tried out the
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into a quarter inch glass tube such as is used in the ordinary
incandescant lamp, and succeeded, as far as I was able to test
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ing to negative this conclusion.
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ial as used by me must be, or could be made for all practical
purposes, coincident with that of glass.
I especially wished to submit the matter to you also for
the following reasons: In the making of the incandescant lamp
there is directly, or indirectly, an immense amount of capital
involved; and, I fancy, that if an obscure person should poke
up his head with an invention of much consequence to the in¬
dustry, it would be promptly punched back into obscurity, and
the discovery appropriated by those able to take it. It
might be, therefore, that if you should find that I an not
mistaken, and have worked out a design of lamp that the in¬
dustry ' could not afford to be without, you would be willing
to father the invention, according to me such private inter¬
est in it as would seem fair under the circumstances.
If it be your pleasure to look into the" matter personally,
I shall be glad to submit my work to you in detail.
Very truly yours,
Cd.. .
Dear Sir:
Herewith t enclose description
and diagram ofl an apparatus calculated to
facilitate and increase the accuracy of the
taking cf the pulse.
Is thla device practical and will
you plcanc write mo your opinion.
I refer you you ao to my standing in
Ashland to any bank in thi-' city or any
prominent citizen.
waiting an early reply, I am,
i our u very truly,
• An -.Electric .Bracelet' for Physicians to take
the puleo of a patient.
* Have a bulb on the bracolot which will fit
down on the wrist pulse so that the vibrations of
the pulse will vibrate an indicator on the top ■
as per drawing herewith, which will not only
indicate the pulse beats pel’ minute on the dial,
but also'tJBSe®DES?s5fld0regularity. Could not
this be done, saving Doctor's time and the use of
a watch, and the uncertainty and bother of tho
count .
THE PEOPLES THEATRE
WEATHERFORD. TEXAS
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been fon the last three ye nr 3 ,u sing
grnohs. Tor some tine I have
nenting with a machine to be
aohine by means of •#!ish t.M talking
Thos. A. Mi son. Invent or etc. ,
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s.nsinfr ?'o’jr np0r*rs .
been thinking:, out
connected v;#fh the G^anfj McOTre
machine by means of wftifih t.M talking can ho tajHrfe siinjttT'a.n&gfc®''
with the gesticulations of the oictures ^ M
my idea is to set the picture machine and^ne nuMyame ojp-
tainin ■ the speaking record side i&4&oh ,orVeome.tfr
the two by a mechanism, and have tie coVjnpfc-ti^, spjfWje what
when the pictures get to the s peaking^&t ti t al k-
ing machine will begin end do its part a di|'ierent time ,
taut at the t.-ine the Pictures seen to be 's)ealo.nmfi,'i| have the
record naciiine enclosed in a net alio box t^a^M>l Mot permit
the sound to eso-’pe , except through a netalj^S' 'ivffie ,wjiioh tube is
to run under the floor of the room andr the curtain
and stone , there to have a, horn to c<&ow/,C!K-^oitnds/riu t in
oonsealm.ent right at, the pictures » (y /
.his idea puf^ftto praoti^Uuse ,but
I have not the money to s ecu remits patent and develop^ the
I an sure you have, and can develop and patent it./ 1 wish
you would this, for I an sure it will be a -.re at in.pr/ovement ,
and will uecome very attractive . If you will do s<Lnnd ny.
idea is worth any tiling:, I an willing to give you the benefit
of it, free of charge.
I would like to hear iron you, and if you feel inclined, a
letter of recognition of the suggestion from you would be very
hi ghly a j pre ci ate d .
With best wishes 1 an,
Yours truly
ALL MAIL POSITIVELY ANSWERED
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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF TERMINALS
JERSEY CITY. X. J.
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Deo. 29, 19 Au:
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
orange , II. J. a^nrvJ
Dear Sir:— ^tferfT _ ^
The undersi§ite'd*h2l the pleLi
interview with you in Apr^xa^^^ioh1’ t^e^ou^igge^ted^
a dasign of rai.
that I should apply for a parent
freight transfer station.
I am very thankful to you for tht
given me at that time. I am sending you herewith a cer¬
tificate of tho patent papers. I appreciate the advice
vory much, I have the patent now, hut don't know what to do
with it.
1910. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Business - General (D-10-31)
This folder contains routine correspondence from individuals or
companies requesting agencies for Edison's inventions or seeking to do
business with Edison.
A sample of less than 10 percent of the documents has been selected.
The selected items contain Edison marginalia.
Related material can be found in D-10-07 (Battery - Storage - Foreign -
General).
[FROM HARRY F. MILLER]
Swedish Chamber of Commerce of Hew York,
Produce Exchange Annex, Hew York City.
Gentlemen:
Replying to your letter of the
8th instant regarding the exploitation of
the new storage battery in Scandinavia, Mr.
Edison directs me to write you that we are
not yet ready to talk business.
A factory is being equipped in Berlin,
and possibly he can furnish batteries from
that city later on.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
COPY —
GRACE BROTHERS & CO., Ltd.
NewYork Karoh 16th, 1910.
Edison Storage Battery Co.,
Orange ,
H. J.
Gentlemen:-
Y/e have recently seen a number of articles on your new
Storage Battery Car, fromvhich v;e understand that the Batteries have
now advanced somewhat beyond their experimental stage.
Y/o would be glad to know if you are ready at this time
and willing to entertain any propositions for export. V/o have received
one or two rather pressing inquiries from Ecuador, and would be glad to
give them definite information. If you are willing to entertain such
Impositions, kindly advise us and we will be glad to send you what
data we have on hand.
Yours very truly.
//^wT;«v
*? . March 16t^' 1910. . .
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Wo herewith make application for the agency of the
Edison storage battery, for the Argentine Republic, Paraguay
and Uruguay, in South America.
We are large exporters from here, and have our own
houses in the Republics mentioned, which make a specialty of
electrioal apparatus. We represent the largest and best-known
manufacturers in the world, and would like very much to handle
your now storage battery which yon are about to put on the market.
Kindly let us have, by return mail, whatever printed
matter you have gotten out, together with all other standard in¬
formation you oan give us.
We have at present quite a number of propositions lying
dormant because we cannot supply the propor equipment. We have
been trying to use accumulator locomotives and a number of other
devices, but these would not suit the requirements. We think,
however, from what we have read and learned about your storage
battery, that same would exactly "fill the bill", and we hope
to have a favorable reply from you as soon as possiblo.
Yours very truly,
S/,R ppArAGAfc, CRgao JTCo.. Ltd.
[FROM FRANK L. DYER]
Ilarch 24, 1910.
.Mot! era. y;. Grace Z: Go. ,
. 0. Bo:-: 206,
ilov; York City.
Gent loner.:
Youro oi' the 16th inat . has been roooivod on the subject
of Bdison 'battorios, and I noto that you linvo had ono or two in¬
quiries from Beuador rogardinc aano.
V.’o regard the battery aa having passed ontiroly boyond
the o:q?oriaontal stago and aro in a position to make shipments to
South- Imorica. If, thoroforo, you will advise mo concerning the
• inquiries in question I will uoo that the matter ic Given atten¬
tion.
Your a very truly,
FLD/ITO
Vioo-T’roaidont.
anroft 24, 1910.
liooora. Agar, Croce A Co. , Ltd. ,
11 Broadway,
How York City.
Gontlor.icn:
Your favor &f tho 16th inct. has boon received, making
application for tho agency of tho Kdieon storage haitory for tho
rgontino Hopublic, Paraguay and Uruguay. In accordanoo with
your roquoct, I a end you our catalogue herewith.
If you care to licence the o uc at ion with :-c , I will ho
glad to moot your ropreaentativo either at Or.-ngo or at r.iy i;0w
Yoidr office, Ho. 10 fifth Avo. I oornoct to ho in 17 ow York on
Euoaday noart, tho 29th inct., and could make an nnpointmont for
tho afternoon of that day.
Yourc vory truly,
I'M)/ TXixi
Vico- Teal don t -
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce ofNewYork
Produce Exchange Annex,
NhwYork.
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•u in quoc I; ion , David. Rapp, licitod, Stockholm,
i first largo concern in Sweden to tal:o an ac fcua
oonnocti on hotwoen oithor yours olf or your Eorlin offico and this
Tirn would probably prove of great bonefit to your intorectr..
V.'o shall ho ploasod iT yon will advice uo how far tho mat tor
has progressed and what your attitude towards this mattor is, in ordor
that wo may adviso our clients.
> favor of your early reply, we aro.
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WHOLESALE GROCERS
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Thomas A. Ed: 3 on,
Orange, IT. J.
Dear Sir:-
sue a ess in competing *
a in combat inc t v
tr^/p- ,,J'
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X today read of
a perfect Kinetophone.
I note that you do not intend
out to the nickelodeons.
Hay I ask you to inform me as soon as you
decide upon your method of handling this proposition.
YTouid he glad to consider scouring the
control in Springfield, and, if practical, in other
cities in Illinois.
Awaiting your reply, I am,
Very respectfully,
Orange, N. J. j
Dear Sir: \
Will you please kindly indicate to me as
to whether any agencies are open for handling the new talking pictures
which you have perfected and which, I understand, will be re ady for com¬
mercial use in a few months. Will you assign exclusive territory to
agents for its proper introduction and on what basis? Would like to know
at the earliest practicable time what arrangements can be made.
The Telegraphic MailCo.
220 BROADWAY
NEW YORK.
i caused to he written t
September tenth,
Nineteen hundred ten.
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I am glad- to write you again,' informing
i that I have been requested by some strong interest!
option on your patent regarding the cinematophone and
I would be very muoh obliged to you if you would
; least of the Italian patent.
earliest possibility.
Very truly yours
1910. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Deafness (D-10-33)
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to devices for the hearing impaired. Included are requests for Edison's opinion
of existing hearing aids as well as inquiries concerning his plans to invent such
a device.
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1910. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Personal (D-10-36)
This folder contains routine personal requests and fan mail. Included are
letters asking Edison for educational advice, personal information, information
on lightning rods and x-rays, charitable contributions, loans, and other favors.
A sample of approximately 10 percent of the documents has been
selected. The selected items contain Edison marginalia.
FRANCIS LEON CHRISMAN,
THE CHRISMAN SYNDICATE,
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can get rid c3Kit. _. ^e^g>r^4'fiat .|^B^cObk
Optimus press, which pri^s^Ws sh^e^^p x
This paper gets full of el^cJS?kity^^^en w£*utj it
on our folding maohin e^i^jlc tC as i#0t Wer yfyuVu
and we have the greatest troubled <5 get t,
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the machine. It tears, ar/yVe sp\il
r ona/who has
Can you suggest any way
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GOODKIND &. SON,
PETROLEUM PRODUCERS,
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Have read your Vinterview in tfie Independent and am ver^
much interested in that part of your remarks in which you are ^
quoted as stating that artificial silk is taking the place of
natural silk and is superior to it. Is it not a fact that there
are reasons why artificial silk cannot toe used, namely:
Pirst: It is comtoustitole
Second: It lacks the fineness and strength of natural silk.
Third: If it comes in contact with water the threads
will toe dissolved.
In my estimation, therefore, these defects will have to
toe overcome toefore this material can take the place of natural silk.
Am I not right in my contention?
Yours very truly,
QCi)t iSafotottt ^ntitcate
Chicago, III.. JQn. 28, 1910
Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
Menlo Park, II. J.
My Dear Sir;-
17111 you please be
acquainted with an ore-finding InveiJEYon'^ca’
which locates ore through the principle of "least resiatonce" to the
electric current.
It is an invention of Fred IT.
and I understand that there are several in use.'
I can not locate them and write to ask if you will be
kind enough to tell me if you know anything about thi3 invention and
if you believe it to be practical.
Thanking you in advance.
Yours very truly.
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P. S. I hate to bother you in this but feel you would know if any
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Among the papers of my deceased Father ^Mr. A. E. Cerqua), I
find certificates representing stook in the "Edison Eleotrio Light Go. of
Europe, Limited".
this stook was purchased by my Father in 1881 and 1883, one of
the oertifioates being signed by youBelf as President.
Gan you give me any information regarding the present status of
this Gompany, or tell me where suoh information may be obtained?
Thankipg you in advanoe f or ‘ the ocurtesy of a reply, I am,
Yours truly, ^
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My dear Mr. Edison: -
Referring to the less by fire of Grant-Lee Hall, Presi
dent Stooksbury, of Lincoln Memorial University, wrote, on the
22d of February, as follows :-
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"I wish to state to you that we have about $14,000, in¬
cluding the insurance. We should have at least $30,000; and
it is highly important that work begin on this building with¬
in the next few weeks, so that it may be done by the opening
of school next September. It is needless to talk of opening
a school here next year without a boys' dormitory completed
by next September. It seems that other institutions over the
country get contributions, both large and small. Colored
schools all over the South are being helped; but the sturdy
mountain boys and girls, with practically no assets, are sup¬
posed to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling.
I think that the contributions made other institutions, in the
main, are all right and well directed; tut why it is that Lin¬
coln Memorial, founded by one of the best men that ever lived,
General 0. 0. Howard, is to drag along without financial aid,
I cannot understand. I am ready Rnd willing to take any sug¬
gestions made for the betterment of this institution and the
noble work it is doing. "
Subscriptions to the endowment come in slowly and are not
available for the needed building. It takes time to inform the pub¬
lic of the need and merit of the University. An appeal is therefore
made to the Honorary Vice Presidents of the Association and to
friends who are believed to know both the need and merit for an emer¬
gency contribution to the building fund. Should a surplus be sub¬
scribed, it will be turned over to the endowment fund.
Kindly fill out the enclosed blank and make your check
payable to Isaac N. Seligman or Thomas H. Hubbard.
Thanking you in advance for an early reply, I am,
Sincerely yours,
iCittrolu Mmnnal Iniuprsitij.
(Snmt-ffirr 5juU SfrlntUhiug
_ _ _ _ 1910
Gentlemen: —
I hereby subscribe $ - as my share of the
fund for rebuilding Grant-Lee Hall, at Lincoln Memorial Uni¬
versity, Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
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ROSEVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
and her daughter, ^dna, be! on." to our church and the church haa been
providing for then to a United extent for the past year.
Conditions are such that I feel sor.ctiing radical ought be
done. For a number of years "rs. Fill -vas vainly dependant upon
her son. Me hcvcvor -vas carried about a year ago and hie support
of his noth or has consequently been rrithdrawn.
The husband appears to be a very unworthy ir.anj she receives
very little of his earnings ’vhich mostly go for drink.
Cur church does not feel like maintaining ”rs. Gill in her
present quarters under existing conditions. Che lias come to tho
point of thinking that her life ’vith Mr. Gill is intolerable. She
ROSEVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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ORCHARDS, 'Sfy.
nr. Thomas A. Edison,
Hew York City,
Dear Sir.
23, 1910.
I will he indeed very grateful if you will give me some
information with respect to the use of electricity when applied to
pumping water for irrigation purposes.
Our lands' are located in Grand Valley, and we have plenty
of water from the Grand River which can he pumped to our land.
Vie have a head of anywhere from 50 to 200 feet of water. We
thought possibly you might he able to give us some information as
to how to go about the securing of the electricity and the ap¬
plication of the same. We thought from a interview which was
published in the local pax^ers here concerning this subject in which
you were quoted as saying that you. thought pumping by electricity
was the proper way to secure water for irrigation.
If it is not asking too much, we will certainly appreciate
some intimation of what your thoughts are on this subject. We
are well aware this is asking a great deal, but if it is convenient
will
and you have time, we certainly^ be very grateful indeed for a
response from you on the subject.
Thanking you very kindly for any information you may
Yours very truly,
let us have, we are,
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Mr. H. F. Miller,
Orange, New Jersey.
% laboratory of Thos. A. Edison,
Dear Mr. Milier:-
June 17, 1910.
Your letter of June 14th with the enclosed cheek for $6 and the
three pawn tickets for Mrs, Fisher, 149 West 9th Street, was duly received.
It was learned at 149 West 9th Street that the family had moved to 11
Huntington Street. A call was made here, but the visitor was unable to
get any one to come to the door, although the neighbors asserted that the
woman was at home. They occupy the whole house. It was learned at a
nearby store that Mrs. Fisher nevor admits anyone because there are many
calls from bill collectors every day.
The family consists of a man, who is a telegraph operator, and
is working, one daughter and three grown up sons. One of the sons is not
living at home, but the other two are working. The mother and daughter
are not working but dress very elaborately. They owe all the tradesmen
in the vicinity, and also when first moving on the street borrowed con?
Biderable money. They have the reputation of being"a set of Bwindlers."
We have known of this family for ten years and have had several
begging letters to investigate which were written to prominent people.
The woman is an inveterate beggar. I am returning the check and pawn
tickets to you, as I am sure you would not care to help such a family.
Our mendicancy officer has taken the matter in hand and hopes to be able
to put a stop to her begging. He has had the case before but failed to
bring the woman to Justice.
Diet. C.F.
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76 WILLIAM STREET
NEW YORK. July 6, 1910.
Thomas A. Edison Esq., e '?IG
Llewellyn Park, 7 / C)
Orange, 1T.J.
Dear Sir:
I ask your valued assistance In making a material to take
the place of cellulose or cork for filling the water tight compart¬
ments of war vessels, and preserving their houyanoy when perforated
hy shot .
I particularly need such a material for the subsurface
boat illustrated in the enclosed Scientific Amerioan for which Con-
greBB has appropriated $445,000.,- enough to buy fifteen of the
small 19-knot boats illustrated, at $30,000 each, the new price and
speed fixed by the Haval Act Just signed.
Ve have just completed the official trials of the first
boat and much more than met all the official requirements.
For filling the compartments abreast the conning tower we
use cellulose at present, as it will soak up ufcsx some water, ex¬
pand, and close transverse shot holes which might let water into the
conning tower and engine compartments. For filling the watertight
compartments forward and aft the conning tower, a material like cork
is better, as it is not necessary to exclude all the watercut most
of it. Cellulose v/eighs about 8 lbs to the cubic foot, but
doubles in weight whon water soaked. Cork weighs about 12 lbs
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76 WILLIAM STREET
NEW YORK, July 6, 1910.
to the cubic foot and is too heavy.
1 propose in lieu of the cork, a cellular filling
made up of something like ping-pong halls having the ^kwi there¬
between filled up with parafine or parafine and ground cork.
We need for our small boats about 70 cubic feet to
weigh less than 7 lbs to the cubio foot and to cost less than $5.00
per cubio foot.
May I call upon you by telephone appointment and talk
this over, on the understaid ing that if you can supply the proper
material we will buy all of you at a fair profit, or otherwise
properly compensate you.
Yours truly,
Enc.
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23 Fifth Avenue, New York,
July 19, 1910
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, M. J. . ,-;{■{ ir. \ :j
Dear Mr. Edison:- f| " C’
Some daye ago I took the liberty of sending you an excellent
photography of large size, obtained from Paoh Bros., requesting that you would
place your uutograph on it, as follows: "For Mr. Carlo Wedekind*^ the inventor
of the(,‘^j^r*5urbine, and signed by yourself. I requested that the phlkograph,
when autographed by you, should be returned to my address. I have not yet
received it. I did receive, however, a small photograph of myself, the
Princess Lwoff Parlaghy and yourself, on which your autograph was placed.
This small photograph I sent to you for your own inspection and use, if you
cared to preserve it. This small photograph was returned to me enclosed in
a letter from your assistant Secretary, dated the 13th instant.
Kindly instruct your socretnry to look up the large photograph,
and return it to me with your uutograph, as desired, as I wish very much to
send it to my friend, Mr. Wedekind.
When I hoar further particulars from him about his gaqft*urbine,
I shall take an early opportunity to communicate with you on tha* subject.
With best wishes.
Very sincerely yt
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Excuse my intruding , but my attention has been-
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drawn to the matter through the treatment of a close triynQ with .
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the only hope. On account of your long exp erienoe and suecetas
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in experiraontal work would it not bo a good field to work in?,
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with a medical treatment with an Iron salt (or oxid suBcqptibl'e
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Respct. Yours ,
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Mr. Thos. A. liaison.
As bur y Park, N. J. ,
Dear Sir : -
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This letter is written to see if the addross is correct*'1 '
to reach. you personally. 1 have a plan which 1 believe will appe^f
to you and which would be impossible to put into effect without
the co-operation of the owners of the basic phonograph patents.
This idea X shall be glad to present in brief detail for your
consideration if you will advise me that a letter addressod as
this is will come into your hands. My supposition is that your
correspondence must b8 so large that much of it is dealt with by
secretaries. 1 was^econtly in your state(at Atlantic City) and
was very sorry that business rendered it impossible to see you at
that time.
L
Incidentally, and entirely apart from the above matter ,
I should like to ask you if you happen to remember a certain Miss
Blonnsrrhassett who formerly lived in Port Huron but has for many
years been a teacher in Detroit. She was instructor and companion
in our family some 26 years ago when we were children and on
numerous occasions has mentioned you.
Trusting that I may hear from you and that it will be
possible to explain fully what has here been referred to so
blindly, I am.
P. 0. Box Ho. 34
Pontiac, Mich.
Yours very truly, '
TELEGRAM.
Great Northern Railway Company
Mr, Thoms Edison,
Dear Sirj-
Can you gJve me
recently when I was
and I promised to do
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■Ed, Gilliland’s adds? I met, an oduT friend of Ms
hack in Illinois who asked me to get -Ed’s adds for him
if I could and I thought I would ask you for it as
you might he able t.o give it. to me , I used to work with J?d. about, forty
years ago in Tils, I think you were working in Memphis at t.he close of the
civil war when I was the re working for the C.R, R,
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and dill Supplies.
do. 5 -dorth Seventh Street.
Richmond, va auk. ggna.. 1910.
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Orange . , N. 1. 3. nua. <-.J .Si
Dear UStOCLs ^ W
I had the chef of the Business Ken's Club to cook yjm a
Virginia Ham, and send it to you last week by express. 7as very much
disappointed on seeing the ham that it was not larger, but the chef in¬
formed me that this brand is generally about that size. This ham will
taste better than it looks. '
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PHOTO -ERA
The American Journal of Photography
Official Organ of the American Federation of Photographic Societies
WALTER P. CROSE & CO
Thomas Addison Esq.
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
MONTROSE, COLO., Sept . 7 . I£I£U
b»oie«£^M^ ferft.
vwrvu**-*.
Your very courteous repQr tofmy letfrdr_of 26th ultvguly ' (
received. I admit all you^sfj^dfefe^^thl'^va’iSe^of ^he^hedgefhut it
ibly would in a district where
only moderately low temperatures are to be guarded against. Wo must
u
provide for a fall of 20 degrees below freezing, or oven lower than
CXve.'Cr-£
action. 7
that, to be assured of protection. Thsiarae amount of >f§lp required
to handle oil or coal, rather than its cos4,is the dremroack to that
system of "smudging". We still have faith, that the master mind can,
if it will, evolve some apparatus that will cover the case.
I have heard of an electrio heater having been patented for that pur¬
pose, but so far have not been able to get any authentic informa¬
tion regarding it. Thanking you again, I am
j.'j y/z&j/i .p/r* v.
V v/i/nr/yr*
KENDALL BANNING
d/yjftwt
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&OL.J. /o/lf/0
Her; York,
3-iiix.anb’r 30th 1910.
In order to monopolize as little of your time as possible,
I shall brine; with me an export and an assistant. I do not believe that
the operation will require mo io then 30 or 40 minutes.
kb/eeh
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- Gas tem Editor.
Oot. 31, 1910.
l£r. Thora&s A, Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:
W" 1- mg
(Mu n|)
As per your request of the 29th inst., I enclose herewith copies of
my letters of Sept. 7th and 27th.
Trusting to receive a reply at an early date, I remain,
Yours truly,
[ATTACHMENT]
Sept. 7, 1910.
The Edieon Phonograph Co.,
West Orange, N.J,
Gentlemen:
I want to get a record of the variation in speed of a reciprocating
pump, and in order to do so 1 need a piece of apparatus that turns at constant
speed. I want to revolve a drum about 20" long and 4" in diameter at a speed of
about 60 revs, per min. Sometime ago you made a phonograph for large records; I
think they were about 4" in diameter. It struck me that if I could get one of those
phonographs, which you have probably discarded, I could make use of a majority of
the works for making up such a revolving drum as I have above indicated.
Will you kindly advise me whether you still have in existence one of those
old phonographs which would answer my requirements. If you have, what would it coBt
us? If you havs nothing old of that nature, is thsre anything you could recommend to
me which could possibly be geared down to a speed of 60 revs, per min., which would
givs me absolute constant speed and rotate a drum of about 3" or 4" diameter and 20"
long, on which I would take pencil records.
Trusting you will bring this before the proper party and let ms hear from
you promptly, I remain,
Yours truly.
(Signed)
F. L, Pryor
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COPY
Sept. 27, 1910.
Tho Edison Phonograph Co.,
Wost Orange, N.J.
Gen tl amen:
Will you kindly reply to my letter of the 7th inat. I enclose
copy herewith.
(Signed)
Yours truly,
F. L. Pryor.
[ATTACHMENT]
Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir.'
Will you not kindly reply
you on Sept. 7th and 27th.
of
Yours truly,
*c At
FREDERICK L. PRYOR. M. E.
CONSULTING ENGINEER
Ini'. K. F. Miller, Secretary,
Thomas A, Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:
I acknowledge receipt of your letter of the let inat. replying
to mine in reference to getting one of your old phonographs. Pleaae accept my thanks
for finally answering my many letters. In further reference to this, kindly tell Mr.
Edison that I do not want an ordinary chronograph. We have those in our own college
and do not need to borrow the same from Columbia. I wished to build my own device,
and wanted a phonograph mechanism to start it. I note that you have none of your
old ones left.
Yours truly,
tC~C
(a.
RJ-
Mr. nar:
ITov. 9, 1910.
.<•><* *'*'
y Miller,
Laboratory
■s U)
fU-
I presume by this time you can
confirm with mo that Mr. Udison has written Dr.
Fairchild, in the Department of Agriculture,
Washington and would be glad if you would do so,
so that I can properly mark our files in this
Office .
V. M. Goolidge.
[ENCLOSURE]
Hr. phom&s A. Edison,
Orange, II. J.
Doar Sir:-
At the suggestion of your representative Hr. Bontley, I take
the liberty of dictating to this cylinder a matter of raorethan personal
nature which ho thinks may interest you.
I culled to his attention, a little magazine called the
Volta Review, which is devoted to the teaching of the deaf, but which
is indirectly the oxitcome of work done by my father in law Hr. Alexander
Graham Bell many years ago on the Phonograph. The magazine called the
Volta Review represents the Volta prize givon to Hr. Bell for the
invention on the telephone, but which funds were used in his early works
with the Phonograph which you are doubtless quite familiar, possible
more familiare than I am. Phis institution called the Volta Bureau
is confirmed almost exclusively in affecting the teaching of deaf
children especially those who are deaf from child-hood. It is the
most comprehensive institution of its kind in the world maintained in
library which is almost complete of the literature regarding the teach¬
ing of the deaf and represents the newest ideas regarding the teaching of
tho speech to the .o y; f .rtnha' a childr en which number as ycu are well
aware many thcusai.d ii. i-.’.e United States alone, meaning the great needs
of such an institution, andiwishing to bring into the organization every
influential man in the United ^tates. who can help make less the trial
of the’ deaf .
" o have regoranized and are now bringing out regularly this
little machine called the Volta Review which we hope will give every ■
new member of the Cragnization full value for his subscription.
-“s one of the directors of this association to which I
am gratuitously ccntributating a large .amount of my spare time. I
take the liberty of inviting you to become a member of the organisation
and a subscriber to its magazine.
Hr. Grahan' Bell is now in Australia and of course knows
nothing of this letter that I am writing to you. I hope however,
that you may investage the claims of the Volta Bureau and become one
of the members of the association.
I am glad of this opportunity given me by Hr. Beit ley
to talk so directly to aman of such inventions have been of such
benefit to mankind.
I remain, with great respect,
Yours very truly.
Signed - David Fairchild.
Agriculture Explorer,
in charge of Foreign
seed ana ilant introduction
V) ‘J' Y
FREDERICK L. PRYOR. M. E.
CONSULTING ENGINEER
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir: *
Your latter of the 16th inet. was received, end in reply I want to
express my appreciation of Ur. Edison’s suggestion that I come out to the laboratory
and look over the material you have there to see if I cun find what I want. Please
tell Mr. Edison I am going to avail myself of his kind offer, and before long I will
be out there. I shall ask for you personally, and suppose you could put me in
touch with the progfr partyto look up the matter.
Thankingyou in advance, I remain,
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